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USS S-16 - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 24°25.207′N 82°02.393′W / 24.420117°N 82.039883°W

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24°25.207′N 82°02.393′W / 24.420117°N 82.039883°W / 24.420117; -82.039883

History
USS S-16
United States
Name	USS S-16
Builder	Lake Torpedo Boat Company
Laid down	19 March 1918
Launched	23 December 1919
Commissioned	17 December 1920
Decommissioned	22 May 1935
Recommissioned	2 December 1940
Decommissioned	4 October 1944
Fate	Sunk as target 3 April 1945
General characteristics
Class and type	S-class submarine
Displacement	876 long tons (890 t) (surfaced) 1,092 long tons (1,110 t) (submerged)
Length	231 ft (70 m)
Beam	21 ft 10 in (6.65 m)
Draft	13 ft 1 in (3.99 m)
Speed	15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h) (surfaced) 11 kn (13 mph; 20 km/h) (submerged)
Complement	38 officers and men
Armament	1 × 4 in (100 mm)/50 deck gun, 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

USS S-16 (SS-121) was a second-group (S-3 or "Government") S-class submarine of the United States Navy.

Construction and commissioning

S-16′s keel was laid down on 19 March 1918 by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was launched on 23 December 1919 sponsored by Mrs. Archibald W. McNeil, and commissioned on 17 December 1920.

Service history

1921–1935

Departing from New London, Connecticut, on 31 May 1921, S-16 was attached to Submarine Division 18 (SubDiv 18) and proceeded via the Panama Canal, California, Hawaii, and Guam to the Philippine Islands. She arrived at Cavite, Luzon, on 1 December 1921.

S-16 departed Cavite on 11 October 1922, visited Hong Kong from 14 to 28 October, and returned to Cavite on 1 November 1922. Departing Manila on 15 May 1923, she visited Shanghai, Yantai, and Qinhuangdao in China before returning, via Wusong and Amoy, to Cavite on 11 September 1923. In the summer of 1924, she visited Shanghai, Qingdao, Yantai, and Qinhuangdao, returning to Olongapo in the Philippines on 23 September 1924. Departing Cavite on 3 November 1924, she arrived at Mare Island, California, on 30 December 1924.

S-16 remained at Mare Island in 1925 and 1926, and operated along the California coast in 1927, with a visit to Hawaii in July–August 1927. From February 1928 until 1935, S-16 served in the Panama Canal area although she visited Baltimore, Maryland, from 15 May to 5 June 1933. Departing Coco Solo in the Panama Canal Zone on 25 January 1935, S-16 was decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 22 May 1935.

1940–1944

S-16 was recommissioned on 2 December 1940. Following voyages to Bermuda and the Panama Canal Zone, she operated at Saint Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands from December 1941 (during which the United States entered World War II with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December) to March 1942, then in the Panama Canal area from April to August 1942. On 13 July 1942, she was on the surface in the Caribbean Sea off Panama when she suffered damage from bombs accidentally dropped near her by United States Army Air Forces planes attacking the German U-boat U-153; the damage prevented her from diving, and she proceeded to port on the surface.^[1] S-16 was based at New London from September 1942 to June 1944, with operations at Casco Bay, Maine.

Decommissioning and disposal

S-16 was decommissioned on 4 October 1944 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register. She was intentionally destroyed by sinking off Key West, Florida, on 3 April 1945.

Wreck

S-16′s wreck lies in 265 feet (81 m) of water, upright with a 20° tilt to its starboard side.^[2]^[3] The Gulf Stream flows over the hull, allowing little coral growth and making wreck diving difficult to impossible.^[3] The wreck is accessible through large hatches both forward and aft of the conning tower.^[2] Both steel screws are covered by invertebrate growth.^[2]

In literature

A fictional USS S-16 appears in Edward L. Beach, Jr.'s 1955 novel Run Silent, Run Deep. In the novel, the fictional S-16 is taken out of decommissioned status, recommissioned and prepared for war by the characters in the story, and then turned over to the Polish Navy.

References

Citations

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

^ Hinman & Campbell, p. 198.
^ ^a ^b ^c Barnette, Michael C. (2003). Shipwrecks of the Sunshine State: Florida's Submerged History. Association of Underwater Explorers. p. 160. ISBN 0-9743036-0-7. Archived from the original on 19 February 2009.
^ ^a ^b Rozzi, James (2008). "S-16 WW-I U.S. Submarine" (PDF). Advanced Diver Magazine Ezine (1, reprinted from ADM issue 3): 90–92. Retrieved 4 June 2009.

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.

S-class submarine

United States Navy

Prototypes	S-1 (Holland design) S-2 (Lake design) S-3 (Navy design)
Navy (S-3) Group	S-4 S-5 S-6 S-7 S-8 S-9 S-10 S-11 S-12 S-13 S-14 S-15 S-16 S-17
Holland (S-1) Group	S-18 S-19 S-20 S-21 S-22 S-23 S-24 S-25 S-26 S-27 S-28 S-29 S-30 S-31 S-32 S-33 S-34 S-35 S-36 S-37 S-38 S-39 S-40 S-41
Second Holland (S-42) Group	S-42 S-43 S-44 S-45 S-46 S-47
Second Navy (S-48) Group	S-48 S-49 S-50 S-51

Other operators
Polish Navy	Jastrząb (ex-P551, S-25)
Royal Navy	P551 (ex-S-25) P552 (ex-S-1) P553 (ex-S-21) P554 (ex-S-22) P555 (ex-S-24) P556 (ex-S-29)

Preceded by: R-class
Followed by: V-boats
List of submarines of the United States Navy

List of submarine classes of the United States Navy

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in July 1942
Shipwrecks	1 Jul: Edward Luckenbach, Montevideo Maru 2 Jul: Ukraina 3 Jul: Alexander Macomb, U-215 4 Jul: Nenohi, Christopher Newport 5 Jul: Arare, Empire Byron, HMS Niger, River Afton, John Randolph 6 Jul: Avila Star, U-502 7 Jul: RFA Aldersdale, Fiddown, Hartlebury, Pan Kraft, U-701 9 Jul: Empire Explorer, Nicholas Cuneo, Santa Rita 10 Jul: El Capitan 11 Jul: U-136 13 Jul: U-153, R. W. Gallagher 14 Jul: Pietro Calvi, Shch-317, USAT Arcata 15 Jul: Empire Attendant, HMHS Gloucester Castle, U-576 16 Jul: Fairport, Komintern 17 Jul: U-751 22 Jul: Ayatosan Maru, USS Southern Seas 24 Jul: Toufic El Rahman, U-90 26 Jul: Oaxaca 27 Jul: HM Motor Gun Boat 501 28 Jul: Broompark, V 202 Hermann Bösch 30 Jul: Robert E. Lee, U-166 31 Jul: USS Grunion, U-213, U-588, U-754
Other incidents	5 Jul: RFA Aldersdale, Argo, Pan Kraft 7 Jul: J. A. Moffett Jr. 9 Jul: El Capitan 13 Jul: USS S-16 15 Jul: Pennsylvania Sun 19 Jul: Malines 28 Jul: V 203 Carl Röver 30 Jul: Kōtoku Maru
1941 1942 1943 June 1942 August 1942

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in April 1945
Shipwrecks	1 Apr: Awa Maru 2 Apr: CD-186, USS Dickerson, U-321 3 Apr: Brummer, USS S-16, U-1221, U-2542, U-3505, T111 4 Apr: USS Dickerson, U-237, U-749, U-3003 5 Apr: U-242, USS S-17 6 Apr: Amatsukaze, USS Bush, USS Colhoun, USS Leutze, USS Morris, USS Newcomb, USS Witter, SS Hobbs Victory, SS Logan Victory 7 Apr: Asashimo, Hamakaze, Isokaze, Isuzu, Kasumi, USS LST-447, Oldenburg, USS PGM-18, U-1195, Yahagi, Yamato 8 Apr: U-774, U-1001 9 Apr: Admiral Scheer, Ro-56, U-677, U-747, U-804, U-843, U-982, U-1065, U-2509, U-2514, U-3512, U-2516, Vale 10 Apr: U-878, Weser 12 Apr: USS Mannert L. Abele, Ro-64, U-486 13 Apr: Karlsruhe, U-1024 14 Apr: Belgian Airman, U-235, U-1206 15 Apr: U-103, U-285, U-1063, U-1235 16 Apr: HMCS Esquimalt, Lützow, USS Pringle, U-78, U-880, U-1274 17 Apr: Goya 19 Apr: Aquila, U-251, U-548, U-879 21 Apr: U-636 22 Apr: USS Swallow, U-518 23 Apr: USS Eagle Boat 56, U-183 24 Apr: USS Frederick C. Davis, U-108, U-546 25 Apr: Graf Zeppelin, Ro-109, TA 32, U-326 27 Apr: Canada Victory, TA 34 28 Apr: CH-17, U-56 29 Apr: I-44, U-56, U-286, U-307, U-1017 30 Apr: HMS Goodall, TA 43, U-879, U-1107 Unknown date: I-56, Ro-46, Ro-49, USS Snook, U-246, U-325, U-396, U-398, U-548, U-857, U-1055
Other incidents	2 Apr: USS Dickerson 5 Apr: USS Thornton 6 Apr: USS Defense, USS Emmons, USS Mullany, USS Rodman 8 Apr: USS Bullhead 9 Apr: USS Sea Devil 11 Apr: I-401 12 Apr: USS Lindsey, U-1024, USS Zellars 14 Apr: USS Sigsbee 15 Apr: HMS Ekins, USS Laffey 16 Apr: USS Bryant, Goya, USS Harding 19 Apr: USS Bullhead, USS Pogy, USS Tolman 27 Apr: HMS Redmill 28 Apr: Argo, USS Huron 29 Apr: USS Baya 30 Apr: U-3525
1944 1945 1946 March 1945 May 1945

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