USS R-1 (SS-78)
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| Name: | USS R-1 |
| Ordered: | 29 August 1916 |
| Builder: | Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 16 October 1917 |
| Launched: | 24 August 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 16 December 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 May 1931 |
| Recommissioned: | 23 September 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 September 1945 |
| Reclassified: | SS-78, July 1920 |
| Struck: | 10 November 1945 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 13 March 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | R class submarine |
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| Length: | 186 ft 2 in (56.74 m) |
| Beam: | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-electric |
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| Complement: | 30 officers and men |
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USS R-1 (SS-78) was the lead ship of the R-class coastal and harbor defense submarines of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 16 October 1917 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 24 August 1918 sponsored by Mrs. George W. Dashiell, and commissioned on 16 December 1918 at Boston, Massachusetts, with Commander Conant Taylor in command.
After shakedown in New England waters, R-1 was assigned to Submarine Division 9 of the Atlantic Fleet and based at New London, Connecticut. She got underway on 4 December 1919 for Norfolk, Virginia, and winter exercises with her division in the Gulf of Mexico, and returned to New London on 18 May 1920 for four months of summer operations with R-2 and R-3 before sailing on 13 September for Norfolk and overhaul.
Given hull classification symbol SS-78 in July 1920, R-1 was ordered to the Pacific Ocean on 11 April 1921, transited the Panama Canal in late May, and arrived on 30 June at her new base, San Pedro, California. She took part in fleet exercises off Central America from 5 February through 6 April 1923, returned to San Pedro on 10 April, and on 16 July was transferred, along with Division 9, to Pearl Harbor where for the next eight years she trained crews and developed submarine tactics.
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