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R-24 (SS-101)

R-21 Class Submarine: Laid down, 19 May 1917, at Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, CT.; Launched, 21 August 1917; Commissioned, USS R-24, 27 June 1919; Redesignated USS R-24 (SS-101), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 11 June 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, 30 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.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	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.
	123k	Port side view of the R-24 (SS-101) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, September 22, 1923, when the boat was unnergoing a shipyard overhaul. At the end of 1924 she returned for inactivation. Among the decommissioned ships nested to the right that are identifiable, is the San Francisco(C-5) (first from left) & the Solace (AH-2) (second on left).		US Navy photo courtesy of usssubvetsofwwii.org. Partial text courtesy of DANFS. Photo i.d. courtesy of Aryeh Weterhorn, David Johnston (USNR), Darryl Baker & Mike Green.

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