USS R-5 (SS-82)

USS R-5 entering harbor in the Territory of Hawaii sometime between 1923 and 1930.
History
Name:	USS R-5
Ordered:	29 August 1916
Builder:	Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Massachusetts
Laid down:	16 October 1917
Launched:	24 November 1918
Commissioned:	15 April 1919
Decommissioned:	30 June 1932
Recommissioned:	19 August 1940
Decommissioned:	14 September 1945
Struck:	11 October 1945
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 22 August 1946
General characteristics
Type:	R class submarine
Displacement:	569 long tons (578 t) surfaced 680 long tons (691 t) submerged
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
Speed:	13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph) surfaced 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) submerged
Complement:	34 officers and men
Armament:	4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun

USS R-5 (SS-82) was an R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 16 October 1917 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 24 November 1918 sponsored by Miss Margaretta King, and commissioned on 15 April 1919, Lieutenant Commander Eric L. Barr in command.

After completion at the Boston Navy Yard, R-5 got underway on 28 April 1919 for New London, Connecticut, where she was assigned to Submarine Division 9 of the Atlantic Fleet. She headed south on 4 December for Norfolk, Virginia, and winter exercises with her division in the Gulf of Mexico from 21 January to 14 April 1920. R-5 later returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on 18 May for four months of summer training in New England waters. Then given hull classification symbol SS-82 (effective 17 July) she sailed 13 September for Norfolk and an overhaul that was completed in April 1921.

In company with Camden (AS-6), R-5 was ordered to the Pacific Ocean on 11 April 1921, transited the Panama Canal on 28 May, and arrived on 30 June at her new base, San Pedro, California. In January 1923 she was used in the filming of the Twentieth Century-Fox motion picture The Eleventh Hour, and engaged in war games with the battle fleet in the Gulf of Fonseca from 5 February to 6 April 1923.