USS S-11 (SS-116)
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| Name: | USS S-11 |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 2 December 1919 |
| Launched: | 7 February 1921 |
| Commissioned: | 11 January 1923 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 May 1945 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
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| Class and type: | S-class submarine |
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| Length: | 231 ft (70 m) |
| Beam: | 21 ft 10 in (6.65 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 1 in (3.99 m) |
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| Complement: | 42 officers and men |
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USS S-11 (SS-116) was a second-group (S-3 or "Government") S-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 2 December 1919 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was launched on 7 February 1921 sponsored by Miss Anna E. Roosevelt and commissioned on 11 January 1923 with Lieutenant Wilder D. Baker in command.
Supplementing duties along the northeast coast, S-11 visited Guantanamo, Cuba, in 1923, and Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, Trinidad, and Coco Solo in 1924. Sailing from New London, Connecticut, on 29 September, via the Panama Canal and California, she visited Hawaii from 27 April to 25 May 1925, before returning to New London on 12 July. S-11 operated in the Panama Canal area from January through April 1926, visited Kingston, Jamaica, from 20 March to 28 March 1927, and served again in the Panama Canal area from February into April 1928. From 1929 into 1936, S-11 operated almost exclusively in the Panama Canal area, but was in Miami Florida, on 31 March 1930 and visited Washington, DC, from 15 May to 5 June 1933. From at least 30 June 1929 until at least 7 August 1931, Commanding officer was V.R. Murphy. Departing Coco Solo on 13 June 1936, S-11 arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 22 June, and was decommissioned there on 30 September.
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