USS R-12
USS R-12 (SS-89) in a harbor, during the 1920s or early 1930s, note the large "X" painted on the submarine's fairwater for recognition | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | R-12 |
| Ordered | 29 August 1916 |
| Builder | Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Cost | $632,166.52 (hull and machinery) |
| Laid down | 28 March 1918 |
| Launched | 15 August 1919 |
| Sponsored by | Miss Helen Mack |
| Commissioned | 23 September 1919 |
| Decommissioned | 7 December 1932 |
| Recommissioned | 16 October 1940 |
| Stricken | 6 July 1943 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Foundered, 12 June 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | R-1-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 186 feet 3 inches (56.77 m) |
| Beam | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Draft | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 4,700 nautical miles (8,700 km; 5,400 mi) at 6.2 kn (11.5 km/h; 7.1 mph), 7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) if fuel loaded into the main ballast tanks |
| Test depth | 200 ft (61 m) |
| Capacity | 18,880 US gallons (71,500 L; 15,720 imp gal) fuel |
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USS R-12 (SS-89), also known as "Submarine No. 89", was an R-1-class coastal and harbor defense submarine of the United States Navy commissioned after the end of World War I.
Due to space constraints, the boats built at the Fore River Shipbuilding Company yard, were laid down much later than the boats built at the Union Iron Works and the Lake Torpedo Boat Company yards. Because of this, none were commissioned before the end of WWI.