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info on sunk subs off Key West

Author: tim (---.cofs.net)
Date: 11-26-04 09:31

We have several subs sunk of Key West and the Dry Trotugas. US and German. Any place to find info on these.

Thanks

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More info

Author: tim (---.cofs.net)
Date: 11-26-04 09:57

Sorry,

They are
S-16 from WWI and WWII

and
U-2513

T

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Re: More info

Author: Webmaster
Date: 11-26-04 18:52

S-16 (SS-121) was an S-3 class boat, built by Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, CT, and launched on 23 Dec 1919. She was commissioned 17 Dec 1920 and assigned to Cavite, in the Philippines.

She was decommissioned in 1935, and recommissioned 2 Dec 1940. During WWII she made 6 short patrols out of the Canal Zone, with no results. Decommissioned in October 1944, she was stricken from the Navy List.

She was sunk as a target on 3 April 1945.

U-2513 was a Type XXI u-boat, commanded by Eric Topp during her brief wartime career. She was commissioned on 12 Oct 1944, and surrended at the end of the war on 3 Jun 1945.

Turned over to the United States, she was used for tests until 1951. On 8 Oct 1951, she was sunk by the American destroyer U.S.S. Robert A. Owens as part of a weapons test.

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