USS R-14
sea trials in late 1919 or early 1920. Her deck gun has not yet been installed.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS R-14 |
Ordered | 29 August 1916 |
Builder | Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 6 November 1918 |
Launched | 10 October 1919 |
Commissioned | 24 December 1919 |
Decommissioned | 7 May 1945 |
Stricken | 19 May 1945 |
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General characteristics | |
Type | R-class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 186 ft 2 in (56.74 m) |
Beam | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Range |
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Test depth | 200 ft (61 m) |
Complement | 2 officers and 27 men |
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USS R-14 (SS-91) was an
Construction and commissioning
R-14′s
Service history
1919–1929
After a shakedown cruise off the New England coast, R-14 moved to New London, Connecticut, where she prepared for transfer to the United States Pacific Fleet. In May 1920, she headed south. Given hull classification symbol "SS-91" on 17 July 1920, she transited the Panama Canal in the same month and arrived at Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii on 6 September 1920. There, for the next nine years, she assisted in the development of submarine warfare and anti-submarine warfare tactics, and participated in search and rescue operations.
R-14 – under acting command of
1930–1946
On 12 December 1930, R-14 departed Pearl Harbor for the last time and headed back to the
On 25 April 1945, R-14 departed Key West and headed north, and in early May 1945 she arrived at
Notes
- ^ The man in the foreground of the photograph is Seaman First Class Raymond R. Suess from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Though the copy shown of this photo is from the National Archives and in the public domain, the original copy of the photograph has been in the possession of the Suess family until recently and is now in private hands. Johnston & Hedman, pg. xvii, 63
References
Citations
- ^ Johnston & Hedman, pg.47
- ^ Johnston & Hedman, pg. 53
- ^ Johnston & Hedman, pg. 56, 57
- ^ Johnston & Hedman, pg. 59
- ^ Johnston & Hedman, pg. 59-66
- ^ Condensed from the logbook of USS R-14. The logbook and Nimitz's letter are in the possession of Lieutenant Douglas's grandson in Colorado. (2 April 2009)
- ^ Johnston & Hedman, pg. 96
- ^ Hinman & Campbell, p. 166.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Bibliography
- Hinman, Charles R., and Douglas E. Campbell. The Submarine Has No Friends: Friendly Fire Incidents Involving U.S. Submarines During World War II. Syneca Research Group, Inc., 2019. ISBN 978-0-359-76906-3.
- Johnston, David L., and Hedman, Ric. A Good and Favorable Wind: The Unusual Story of a Submarine Under Sail and its Cautionary Lessons for the Modern Navy. Nimble Books LLC, 2022. ISBN 978-1-60888-200-7
External links
- Photo gallery of USS R-14 at NavSource Naval History
- 1939 Photos of R-14 from Life Magazine[dead link]
- R Boats Archived 6 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine at PigBoats.com