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R-11 (SS-88)

Radio Call Sign: November - India - Lima - Quebec
R-1 Class Submarine: Laid down, 18 March 1918, at Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, MA.; Launched, 21 July 1919; Commissioned, USS R-11, 5 September 1919; Redesignated USS R-11 (SS-88), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 5 September 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 11 October 1945; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 13 March 1946, to Macey O. Smith, Miami, FL.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 569 t., Submerged: 680 t.; Length 186' 2" ; Beam 18'; Draft 14' 6"; Speed, Surfaced 13.5 kts, Submerged 10.5 kts; Depth Limit, 200'; Complement 2 Officers, 27 Enlisted; Armament, four 21" torpedo tubes forward, 8 torpedoes, one 3"/50 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel electric engines, New England Ship and Engine Co., diesel engines, 1200hp, Fuel Capacity, 18,880 gals., Electro Dynamic Co., electric motors, twin propellers.
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R-11 66k R-11 (SS-88) underway, circa 1921, in the Hawaiian Islands.
 		Courtesy of Mike Baust.
Sub Base Pearl Harbor152kThe crews of Submarine Divisions 9 & 14 line the decks of their boats (20 in all) at the Submarine base at Pearl Harbor on 12 December 1930.
R-1 (SS-78),
R-2 (SS-79),
R-3 (SS-80),
R-4 (SS-81),
R-5 (SS-82),
R-6 (SS-83),
R-7 (SS-84),
R-8 (SS-85),
R-9 (SS-86),
R-10 (SS-87),
R-11 (SS-88),
R-12 (SS-89),
R-13 (SS-90),
R-14 (SS-91),
R-15 (SS-92),
R-16 (SS-93),
R-17 (SS-94),
R-18 (SS-95),
R-19 (SS-96) &
R-20 (SS-97).
All the R-boats were to leave the base where they had been serving for upwards of 8 years and transfer to the East coast to be decommissioned over the next 3 years.
The only identifiable boat is the R-16. 		US Navy photo by Tai Sing Loo, courtesy of E. Little. Photo added 04/15/07.
SS 127 95k Submarines at New York City, circa the 1930s: These "boats" are, from left-to-right:
R-11 (SS-88),
R-13 (SS-90),
R-4 (SS-81) and
S-22 (SS-127).
US Navy photo # NH 68898, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.
R-11 102k R-11 (SS-88) arriving at the Battery, in New York City, for the World's Fair, April 29, 1939. The mercantile tug Dalzellico is immediatley behind the boat.
 		US Navy photo & text courtesy of Warship Int. Edition # 3, 1986.
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