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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. ==1919-1931== 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 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 and . From 26 February-2 March 1923, ''R-6'' was used by Twentieth Century-Fox in making the motion picture, ''The Eleventh Hour''. ''R-6'' was transferred on 16 July to Hawaii where she remained for the next eight years engaged in training and operations with fleet units. ''R-6'' was recalled to the Atlantic on 12 December 1930, transited the Panama Canal on 18 January 1931, and arrived on 9 February at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she decommissioned on 4 May. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS R-6 (SS-83)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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