USS R-6 (SS-83)
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USS R-6 underway while testing the first experimental U.S. Navy submarine snorkel in 1945.
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| Name: | USS R-6 |
| Ordered: | 29 August 1916 |
| Builder: | Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 17 December 1917 |
| Launched: | 1 March 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 1 May 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 4 May 1931 |
| Recommissioned: | 15 November 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 October 1945 |
| Struck: | 11 October 1945 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, March 1946 |
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| 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: | 34 officers and men |
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USS R-6 (SS-83) was an R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 17 December 1917 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 1 March 1919 sponsored by Ms. Katherine Langdon Hill, and commissioned at Boston, Massachusetts on 1 May 1919, with Lieutenant Commander Charles Milford Elder in command.
After fitting out at Boston, R-6 reported to Submarine Division 9 (SubDiv 9) of the Atlantic Fleet at New London, Connecticut on 16 September 1919. In early December, while anchored alongside the submarine tender Camden and five other submarines, she was swept away by a gale and grounded on "Black Rock" at the entrance to the harbor at New London. Once aground, she radioed for help and two minesweepers tried to pull her off the rocks, but to no avail. She was later freed and returned to service.
R-6 got underway on 4 December 1919 for Norfolk, Virginia, and winter exercises with her division in the Gulf of Mexico from 21 January-14 April 1920. She returned to New London on 18 May for four months of summer maneuvers, before sailing on 13 September for Norfolk and overhaul.
With SubDiv 9, R-6, given hull classification symbol "SS-83" in July 1920, was ordered to the Pacific on 11 April 1921; transited the Panama Canal on 28 May; and arrived on 30 June at her new base, San Pedro, California. Due to a malfunction in one of her torpedo tubes, she sank in San Pedro Harbor on 26 September, but was refloated on 13 October by the submarine R-10 (SS-87) and the minesweeper Cardinal (AM-6). From 26 February to 2 March 1923, R-6 was used by Twentieth Century-Fox in making the motion picture The Eleventh Hour.
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