USS R-19 (SS-96)
.jpg) USS R-19 |
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| Name: | USS R-19 |
| Ordered: | 29 August 1916 |
| Builder: | Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California |
| Laid down: | 23 June 1917 |
| Launched: | 28 January 1918 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Robert L. Irvine |
| Commissioned: | 7 October 1999 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 May 1931 |
| Recommissioned: | 6 January 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 March 1942 |
| Reclassified: | From "Submarine Number 96" to SS-96, July 1920 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy, 9 March 1942 |
| Career |  |
| Name: | HMS P.514 |
| Acquired: | 9 March 1942 |
| Fate: | Sunk, 21 June 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | R class submarine |
| Displacement: | 569 long tons (578 t) surfaced 680 long tons (691 t) submerged |
| Length: | 186 ft 2 in (56.74 m) |
| Beam: | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-electric 880 hp (656 kW) diesel engines 934 hp (696 kW) electric motors |
| Speed: | 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph) surfaced 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) submerged |
| Range: | 3,700 nmi (6,900 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced 100 nmi (190 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) submerged |
| Complement: | 2 officers, 27 men |
| Armament: | • 4 × 21 in (533 mm) bow torpedo tubes, 8 torpedoes • 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun |
USS R-19 (SS-96) was an R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine of the United States Navy.
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[edit] Construction and commissioning
R-19's keel was laid down by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, California on 23 June 1917. She was launched on 28 January 1918 sponsored by Mrs. Robert L. Irvine, and commissioned on 7 October 1918 with Lieutenant Commander William F. Callaway in command.
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Following commissioning, which occurred one month before the Armistice with Germany ending World War I took effect, R-19 remained on the West Coast of the United States for nine months at San Pedro, California, until March 1919 then at San Francisco, California, undergoing overhaul, until June 1919. On 17 June 1919, R-19 got underway from the United States and commenced a transit to the Territory of Hawaii. Eight days later the submarine arrived at Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii and commenced almost twelve years of training submarine crews and testing equipment.
During July 1920, the hull classification symbol of R-19 was changed from "Submarine Number 96" to "SS-96."
On 12 December 1930, R-19 departed Pearl Harbor and commenced a transit to the Philadelphia Navy Yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. En route, the submarine called at San Diego, California; moved south to the Panama Canal Zone; negotiated the Panama Canal; then moved north through the Caribbean Sea and the coastal waters of the East Coast of the United States; and, finally, on up Delaware Bay and Delaware River to Philadelphia.
On 15 May 1931, R-19 was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and placed in the reserve fleet at that shipyard, where she remained berthed at League Island for the next nine years.
R-19 recommissioned on 6 January 1941, then transited to the United States Naval Submarine Base at Groton, Connecticut, where she reconditioned. During May 1941, R-19 headed south. During the remainder of the spring, summer, and into the fall of 1941, she patrolled and conducted training exercises in the Virgin Islands and off the Panama Canal Zone. During October 1941, R-19 returned to Groton and continued her role as a training submarine.
On 9 March 1942, R-19 was decommissioned.
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R-19 was transferred to the United Kingdom under the terms of Lend-Lease on 9 March 1942. Commissioned into the Royal Navy, she was renamed HMS P.514.
At 0300 on 21 June 1942, P.514 was bound for St. Johns, Newfoundland when she encountered HMCS Georgian, a Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper. Unaware of any friendly submarines in the area and receiving no reply to her challenge, Georgian rammed P.514, which sank with the loss of all hands.[1]
A board of inquiry ruled that the commanding officer of Georgian had acted correctly.
[edit] References
- ^ "Canadian Navy Background Information June". navy.forces.gc.ca. http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/centennial/background/background_e.asp?category=70&title=193. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
[edit] External links
- Photo gallery of USS R-19 at NavSource Naval History
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- United States R class submarines
- World War I submarines of the United States
- World War II submarines of the United States
- Ships built in San Francisco, California
- 1918 ships
- Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Navy
- United States R class submarines of the Royal Navy
- World War II submarines of the United Kingdom
- Friendly fire incidents
- Ships sunk in collisions
- World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
- Maritime incidents in 1942
