USS K-6 (SS-37)
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| Name: | USS K-6 |
| Builder: | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Launched: | 26 March 1914 |
| Commissioned: | 9 September 1914 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 May 1923 |
| Reclassified: | SS-37, 17 July 1920 |
| Struck: | 18 December 1930 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, 3 June 1931 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | K class submarine |
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| Length: | 153 ft 7 in (46.81 m) |
| Beam: | 16 ft 8 in (5.08 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 1 in (3.99 m) |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-electric |
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| Complement: | 28 officers and men |
| Armament: | 4 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS K-6 (SS-37) was a K-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy, Massachusetts, under a subcontract from the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 26 March 1914, sponsored by Mrs. Thomas Gaines Roberts, and commissioned on 9 September at Boston, Massachusetts, with Lieutenant J. O. Fisher in command.
Steaming to Newport, Rhode Island, on 16 November, K-6 joined the 4th Division, Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla, for shakedown and training. For almost three years, she conducted experimental and development operations along the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. She underwent diving tests off Cape Cod and Long Island, practiced firing torpedoes in Chesapeake Bay; and participated in tactical submarine exercises out of New London, Connecticut, Key West, Florida, and Pensacola, Florida. Following overhaul at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she departed New London on 12 October 1917, and steamed via Halifax, Nova Scotia, for patrol duty in the Azores.
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