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R-18 (SS-95)

Radio Call Sign: November - Echo - Golf - Charlie
R-1 Class Submarine: Laid down, 16 June 1917, at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA.; Launched, 17 January 1918; Commissioned, USS R-18, 11 September 1918; Redesignated USS R-18 (SS-95), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 13 May 1931, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.; Laid up at League Island; Recommissioned, 8 January 1941. at New London, CT.; Decommissioned, 19 September 1945 at Portsmouth, NH; Struck from the Naval Register in November 1945; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in 1946 to John J. Duane Co., Quincy, MA.

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-18 726k Launching of R-18 (SS-95) at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Lt'd. Union Plant San Francisco, Calif. on 8 Jan 1918. Insert is a picture of the ship's sponsor, Miss. Marion S. Russell. U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker.
SS 92-9787k Beaver (AS-5) at anchor off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, with six submarines alongside, circa late 1918.
R-17 (SS-94),
R-20 (SS-97),
R-15 (SS-92),
R-16 (SS-93),
R-18 (SS-95) &
R-19 (SS-96). 		U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 56366.
R-18 184k R-18 (SS-95) underway, starboard view, date and location unknown. Courtesy of John Hummel.
R-18 1.40k R-18 (SS-95) underway in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, during the 1920s or early 1930s. Seaplane hangars on the southern end of Ford Island are in the right background. U.S. Navy photo # NH 107307, courtesy of U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. Collection of Chief Warrant Officer James B. Dofflemeyer, USN & provided by Robert Hurst.
Photo added 12/06/12.
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.
Navy Yard 91k These World War submarines, [R-boats] tied up in the Navy Yard in Philadelphia for a dozen years, are being reconditioned and some are already in active service again, it was announced 10 Jan. 1941. This picture shows them as they appeared before the repair program began. Photo & text courtesy of A.P. Wire courtesy of philly.com.
R-17 & 19 39k R-17 (SS-94) outboard & R-18 (SS-95) moored at Trinidad, Spring 1943. US Navy photo courtesy of National Archives via Ric Hedman, Mike Green, & uscg.mil.
Pompano 401k This air view of Portsmouth Navy Yard taken just after the end of WW II shows the main shipbuilding shed which enabled construction to continue unimpeded by the Maine winters. The shed was widened to add two ways in 1941, and a fifth was squeezed in a year later. Drydocks No. 1 (left) & 2 (far right) contain six fleet submarines, while three R-boats are moored in the foreground.
The Pompano (SS-491) would have been under construction in the first ways on the left hand corner of the main shipbuilding shed. 		Photo and partial text from The Fleet Submarine in the U.S. Navy: A Design and Construction History, by John D. Alden.
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