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O-16 (SS-77)

O-11 Class Submarine: Laid down, 7 October 1916, at California Shipbuilding Co., Long Beach, CA.; Launched, 9 February 1918; Commissioned, USS O-16, 1 August 1918; Designated (SS-77), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 21 June 1924, at Philadelphia, PA.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia; Struck from the Naval Register, 9 May 1930; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 30 July 1930

Specifications: Displacement, surfaced: 491 t., submerged: 566 t.; Length 175'; Beam 16' 7"; Draft 13' 11"; Speed, surfaced 14 kts, submerged 11 kts; Operational Depth Limit 200 ft; Complement 2 Officers 27 Enlisted; Armament, four 18" torpedo tubes, eight torpedoes, one 3"/23 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel-electric, Busch Sulzer Brothers Diesel Engine Co., diesels, 1,000 hp, Fuel Capacity, 18,588 gal.; Diehl Manufacture Co. electric motors, 800 hp, Battery Cells 120, single propeller.
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O-16208k O-16 (SS-77) is shown off Mare Island on 3 Sept. 1918. O-16 (SS-77) was launched at California Ship Building Company in Long Beach and she along with O-14 (SS-75) were towed to Mare Island by the tug Tillamook for completion.
USN photo # 19-N-1377, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
O-16260k O-16 (SS-77) is shown off Mare Island on 3 Sept. 1918. O-16 (SS-77) was launched at California Ship Building Company in Long Beach and she along with O-14 (SS-75) were towed to Mare Island by the tug Tillamook for completion.
USN photo # RM-7-P4349, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
O-16417k The radio equipment aboard O-16 (SS-77) is shown on 3 Sept. 1918 at Mare Island.
USN photo # RM-7-P4348, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
O-1690k Port side view of the O-16 (SS-77) with crew lining the rails, 1918.
USN photo courtesy of ussubvetsofwwii.org.
O-1684k O-16 (SS-77) & the sub tender Bushnell AS-2 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 26 January 1922.
USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. Photo added 07/17/06.
O-11 through O-16 238k From inboard to outboard:O-11 (SS-72) , O-13 (SS-74) , O-14 (SS-75) , O-15 (SS-76) , O-16 (SS-77) , and O-12 (SS-73) , at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard, circa 1918-24.
USN photo # 80-G-1024950, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
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