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L-5 (SS-44)

Radio Call Sign: November - Yankee - Romeo

L-5 Class Submarine: Laid down, 14 May 1914, at Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, CT.; Launched, 1 May 1916; Commissioned, USS L-5, 17 February 1918; Designated (SS-44), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, and struck from the Naval Register, 5 December 1922, at Hampton Roads; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 21 December 1925, to Passaic Salvage & Reclamation Co., Newark, NJ.

Specifications: Displacement, surfaced: 456 t., submerged: 524 t..; Length 165'; Beam 14' 9"; Draft 13' 3"; Speed, surfaced 14 kts, submerged 10.5 kts; Depth Limit 200'; Complement 2 Officers, 26 Enlisted; Armament, four 18", torpedo tubes, 8 torpedoes, one 3"/23 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel-electric, Busch Sulzer Brothers Diesel Engine Co., diesel engines, 1,200hp, Fuel Capacity, 17,800 gal., Diehl Manufacture Co. electric motors, 800hp, Battery Cells 120, single propeller.

Size	Image Description	Source
82k	L-5 (SS-44) on official trials at Provincetown, 4th run, speed 13.2 knots. August 14, 1917.	US Navy photo from NARA # 19-N-13792, courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
94k	L-5 (SS-44) on official trials at Provincetown, 5th run, speed 13.3 knots. August 14, 1917.	US Navy photo from NARA # 19-N-13793, courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
85k	L-5 (SS-44) on official trials at Provincetown, August 15, 1917.	US Navy photo from NARA # 19-N-37-11-8, courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
66k	Starboard side view of the L-5 (SS-44), probably at Provincetown, August 15, 1917.	US Navy photo courtesy of usssubvetsofwwii.org.
69k	L-5 (SS-44) making 9.05 knots during submerged trials off Provincetown, Massachusetts, August 15, 1917.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 51133.
97k	Submarines at a West Coast port, circa 1919-1922. The Lake type L-8 (SS-48) is at the outboard (left) end of the nest, with her sister, L-7 (SS-46), in the middle (3rd from left). H-3 (SS-30) is between them, with another Electric Boat Company submarine second from right. The inboard (right) "boat" and that in the foreground are the other two units of the Lake-designed *L-5 class; L-5* (SS-44) and L-6 (SS-45). Note piloting station details, periscope, and wide deck of the Lake type *L-boat* in the foreground.	USNHC photo # NH 103256. Collection of Chief Engineman Virgil Breland, USN. Donated by Mrs. E.H. Breland, 1979.
89k	Submarines at a West Coast port, circa 1919-1922. The Lake type L-8 (SS-48) is at the outboard (left) end of the nest, with her sister, L-7 (SS-46), in the middle (3rd from left). H-3 (SS-30) is between them, with another Electric Boat Company submarine second from right. The inboard (right) "boat" and that in the foreground are the other two units of the Lake-designed *L-5 class; L-5* (SS-44) and L-6 (SS-45). Note the "Y-tube" hydrophone mounted on the bow of the submarine in the foreground.	USNHC photo # NH 103255. Collection of Chief Engineman Virgil Breland, USN. Donated by Mrs. E.H. Breland, 1979.

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