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S-16 (SS-121)

Radio Call Sign: November - India - November - Charlie

S-4 Class Submarine (Government-type): Laid down, 19 March 1918, at Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, CT.; Launched, 23 December 1919; Commissioned, USS S-16 (SS-121), 17 December 1920; Decommissioned, 25 May 1935, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.; Laid up in the Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 2 December 1940; Decommissioned, and struck from the Naval Register, 4 October 1944; Final Disposition, sunk as a target, 3 April 1945, 18 miles off Key West, FL.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 876 t., Submerged: 1092 t..; Length 231' ; Beam 21' 10"; Draft 13' 1"; Speed, surfaced 15 kts, submerged 11 kts; Depth Limit 200'; Complement 4 Officers, 34 Enlisted; Armament, five 21" torpedo tubes, 14 torpedoes, one 4"/50 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel electric engines, Maschinfabrik - Augsburg - Nurnburg, New York Navy Yard diesel engines, 2,000 hp, Fuel Capacity, 36,950 gal.; Westinghouse Electric Co., electric motors, 1,200 hp, Battery Cells, 120, twin propellers.

Size	Image Description	Source
146k	All dressed up at Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, CT., 23 December 1919, S-16 (SS-121) lies at dock after launching.	US Navy photo courtesy of ussubvetsofwwii.org.
70k	S-14 (SS-119), alongside Beaver (AS-5) at the Panama Canal Zone, circa the 1920s. S-16 (SS-121) is inboard of *S-14*.	Courtesy of the USS Nautilus Museum, Groton, Connecticut, 1991. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 99184.
139k	S-16 (SS-121) & next to her is possibly the S-50 (SS-161) with another unknown *S-boat* and 4 unidentified *R-boats* alongside their tender, Shawmut (CM-4) probably in the Panama Canal area, circa 1924.	US Navy photo # 80-G-1024884, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
34k	A Pen and ink drawing with wash, by the artist Vernon Howe Bailey, entitled "Deck Gun (Preparing for Sea)," depicts an *S-boat* at dock, possibly the S-16 (SS-121) in 1941.	Deck Gun (Preparing for Sea) Vernon Howe Bailey #30 Pen and ink drawing with wash, 1941 Courtesy of the USNHC, painting # 88-165-AD.

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