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{{short description|Submarine of the United States}}
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|Ship caption=USS ''R-5'' entering harbor in the [[Territory of Hawaii]] sometime between 1923 and 1930.
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|Ship country=United States
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|Ship name=USS ''R-5''
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|Ship ordered=29 August 1916
|Ship builder=[[Fore River Shipbuilding]], [[Quincy, Massachusetts]]
|Ship laid down=16 October 1917
|Ship launched=24 November 1918
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|Ship commissioned=15 April 1919
|Ship decommissioned=30 June 1932
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|Ship recommissioned=19 August 1940
|Ship decommissioned=14 September 1945
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|Ship fate= Sold for scrap, 22 August 1946
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|Ship type= [[United States R class submarine|R class]] [[submarine]]
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*{{convert|680|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} submerged
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|Ship complement=34 officers and men
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'''USS ''R-5'' (SS-82)''' was an [[United States R class submarine|''R''-class coastal and harbor defense submarine]] of the [[United States Navy]].

==Construction and commissioning==
''R-5''′s [[keel]] was [[Keel-laying|laid down]] on 16 October 1917 by the [[Fore River Shipbuilding]] Company, [[Quincy, Massachusetts]]. She was [[Ceremonial ship launching|launched]] on 24 November 1918, sponsored by Miss Margaretta King, and [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 15 April 1919.

==Service history==

===1919&ndash;1932===
After completion at the Boston Navy Yard, ''R-5'' got underway on 28 April 1919 for [[New London, Connecticut]], where she was assigned to Submarine Division&nbsp;9 of the Atlantic Fleet. She headed south on 4 December for [[Norfolk, Virginia]], and winter exercises with her division in the [[Gulf of Mexico]] from 21 January to 14 April 1920. ''R-5'' later returned to [[Newport, Rhode Island]], on 18 May for four months of summer training in [[New England]] waters. Then given [[hull classification symbol]] SS-82 (effective 17 July) she sailed 13 September for Norfolk and an overhaul that was completed in April 1921.

In company with {{USS|Camden|AS-6|3}}, ''R-5'' was ordered to the [[Pacific Ocean]] on 11 April 1921, transited the [[Panama Canal]] on 28 May, and arrived on 30 June at her new base, [[San Pedro, California]]. In January 1923 she was used in the filming of the [[Twentieth Century-Fox]] motion picture ''The Eleventh Hour'', and engaged in war games with the battle fleet in the [[Gulf of Fonseca]] from 5 February to 6 April 1923.

She was transferred on 16 July along with Division&nbsp;9 to [[Pearl Harbor]] where she was based for the next eight years engaged in training and operations with fleet units. ''R-5'' made an endurance run to [[Midway Island]] in July and August 1924 and in December, during division exercises off Pearl Harbor, rammed {{USS|R-16|SS-93|3}} in the after battery room, causing extensive damage to both ships.

''R-5'' was transferred back to the Atlantic on 12 December 1930 with Divisions&nbsp;9 and 14 transited the Panama Canal on 28 January 1931 and arrived at New London on 9 February. She was assigned to Division&nbsp;4 on 1 April and acted as training ship for the Submarine School until sailing on 28 April 1932 for [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], where she decommissioned on 30 June 1932.

===1940&ndash;1946===
After recommissioning on 19 August 1940, ''R-5'' reported to Division&nbsp;42 at New London on 30 October. She sailed on 10 December for the submarine base at [[Coco Solo]], [[Panama Canal Zone]], where she was assigned patrol duty in the Bay of Panama until returning to New London on 31 October 1941. She underwent overhaul and in December relieved {{USS|R-1|SS-78|3}} on patrol along the [[Bermuda]]-New England shipping lanes. Through [[Operation Drumbeat|the U-boat offensives]] of 1942 she maintained those patrols, operating out of New London and Bermuda, and alternating them with anti-submarine training operations for [[destroyer]]s and [[destroyer escort]]s. Twice during the first part of the year she made contact with [[U-boat]]s and once, on 10 February, fired [[torpedo]]es, but none found its mark.

From 1943 into 1945, ''R-5'' continued to rotate between New London and Bermuda. After the end of [[World War II]], she was ordered to [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire]], for inactivation, Arriving on 6 September, she decommissioned on 14 September and was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 11 October 1945. On 22 August 1946, ''R-5'' was sold for scrap to John J. Duane of [[Quincy, Massachusetts]].

== References ==
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*{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/r/r-5.html}}

==External links==
* {{navsource|08/08082|USS R-5}}

{{United States R class submarine}}

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[[Category:United States R-class submarines]]
[[Category:World War II submarines of the United States]]
[[Category:Ships built in Quincy, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:1918 ships]]