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Snapper / C-5 (SS-16)

C Class Submarine: Laid down, 17 March 1908, at Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, MA.; Launched, 16 June 1909; Commissioned USS Snapper, 2 February 1910; Renamed USS C-5, 17 November 1911; Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 23 December 1919, at Coco Solo, C.Z.; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 13 April 1920.

Specifications: Displacement, surfaced 238 t., submerged 275 t.; Length 105' 4"; Beam 13' 11"; Draft 10' 7"; Speed, surfaced 10.5 kts, submerged 9 kts; Depth Limit 200'; Complement 1 Officer, 14 Enlisted; Armament, two 18" torpedo tubes, four torpedoes; Propulsion, gasoline electric, Craig Shipbuilding Co. gasoline engines, 250 hp, Fuel Capacity 1,880 gal., Electro Dynamic Co, electric motors, 150 hp, Battery Cells 60, single propeller.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
67k	Launching of the Snapper (Submarine # 16) at the Fore River shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 16 June 1909.	Courtesy of Howard I. Chapelle, Smithsonian Institution. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph, # NH 41937.
126k	Snapper (Submarine # 16); Narwhal (Submarine # 17); Tarpon (Submarine # 14); and Bonita (Submarine # 15); (listed from left to right) Fitting out at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, during the summer or fall of 1909.	Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center, Photograph # NH 99004.
121k	Bonita (Submarine # 15); Tarpon (Submarine # 14); Narwhal (Submarine # 17); and Snapper (Submarine # 16); (listed from left to right) Fitting out at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, during the summer or fall of 1909. North Dakota (Battleship # 29) is in the right background, also fitting out.	Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center, Photograph # NH 99005.
116k	Snapper (Submarine # 16); outboard; and Grayling (Submarine # 18), by the dock, fitting out at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, during the summer or fall of 1909.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph, # NH 99006.
53k	Navy submarines in port, circa 1909. Possibly photographed at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, these submarines are (from left to right): C-3 (SS-14); either D-1 (SS-17) or D-3 (SS-19); C-5 (SS-16); C-2 (SS-13); C-4 (SS-15); and D-2 (SS-18).	Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center, Photograph # NH 53776.
153k	Atlantic Fleet Submarines at Baltimore, Maryland, on 30 October 1910. These submarines are (from left to right): C-2 (SS-13); C-3 (SS-14); and C-5 (SS-16). Note their 13-star "boat" flags.	Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center, Photograph # NH 92953.
52k	C-5 (SS-16) underway, October 1912, during the naval review week off of New York City.	US National Archives photo # 19-N-11480, US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.
121k	First Division, Atlantic Submarine Flotilla with their crews posed on deck, while moored alongside their tender, *(Severn), circa 1913. These submarines are (from left to right): C-4* (SS-15); unidentified submarine, possibly "D" class; C-5 (SS-16); and C-2 (SS-13).	Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center, Photograph # NH 85090.
92k	C-Class submarines in the Gatun Locks, Panama Canal, circa 1914. Photograph printed on a color-tinted postal card, prior to World War I. The submarine present include (in no particular order): C-1 (SS-09); C-2 (SS-13) C-3 (SS-14); C-4 (SS-15); and C-5 (SS-16).	Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center, Photograph # NH 85276.
118k	"C"-class Submarines Alongside Charleston (Cruiser # 22) in Panama Canal Zone waters, circa 1916-1917. These submarines are (from left to right): C-5 (SS-16); C-2 (SS-13); and C-3 (SS-14). Photographed by Pickard & Zell. Note the small rowboat, and Sailors washing clothing on the float between the cruiser and the submarines.	Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center, Photograph # NH 100941.
145k	C-5 (SS-16) bow view, date and location unknown.	US Navy photo # 19-N-14893, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.

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