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R-22 (SS-99)

R-21 Class Submarine: Laid down, 19 April 1917, at Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, CT.; Launched, 23 September 1918; Commissioned, USS R-22, 1 August 1919; Redesignated USS R-22 (SS-99), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 29 April 1925, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.; Laid up in the Reserve Fleet at League Island, PA.; Struck from the Naval Register, 9 May 1930; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in July 1930.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 510 t., Submerged: 583 t.; Length 175' ; Beam 16' 8"; Draft 13' 11"; Speed, surfaced 14 kts, submerged 11 kts; Depth Limit, 200'; Complement 2 Officers, 27 Enlisted; Armament, four 18" torpedo tubes forward, 8 torpedoes, one 3"/50 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel electric engines, Busch Sulzer Brothers Diesel Engine Co., diesel engines, HP 1,000, Fuel Capacity, 17,922 gals., Diehl Manufacture Co., electric motors, HP 800, Battery Cells 120, twin propellers.

Size	Image Description	Source
88k	Lake's R-boats R-21-27 / (SS-98/104), were the last of his designs to be built in any numbers. He abandoned amidships diving planes in this class, but his characteristics stern remained. The horizontal tube aft is an access tube connecting the motor room to the tiller room aft.	Drawing by Jim Christley, text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Through 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. Naval Institute Press.
47k	Bow view of the R-22 (SS-99) underway off the Atlantic coast, 15 February 1919, 3 months after her launching and 8 months before her commissioning.	US Navy photo # 19-N-14768, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
64k	Bow view of the R-22 (SS-99) at Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, CT. 2 April 1919.	US Navy photo # 19-N-2511, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
69k	R-22 (SS-99) starboard view underway with the crew lining the deck, probably in the Thames river off New London, CT., in the early 1920's.	US Navy photo # 19-N-10666, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
411k	In port, pictured from left to right: R-21 (SS-98) R-23 (SS-100) R-27 (SS-104) S-2 (SS-106) At Lake Torpedo Boat Co. Yard, Bridgeport CT., April 2, 1919.	US Navy photo # 19-N-2584, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
43k	R-22 (SS-99) dockside showing her bow buoyancy conversion bow. The *R-22* was the second *R-boat* constructed by the Lake Torpedo Boat company During 1921, *R-22* was transferred back to the Connecticut Submarine Base for duty with SubDiv0, an experimental division of submarines.	US Navy photo and text contributed by Ric Hedman/rddesigns.com.
43k	Simon Lake added this same bow to the R-22 (SS-99) over his concerns about reserve bouyancy.	US Navy photo and text contributed by Ric Hedman/rddesigns.com.
131k	Bow view of the R-22 (SS-99) at the Navy Yard, Portsmouth New Hampshire, July 29, 1922.	US Navy photo courtesy of ussubvetsofwwii.org.

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