USS S-16 (SS-121)
Keel laid down by the Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, CT 19MAR18;
Launched: 23 DEC19; Sponsored by Mrs. Archibald W. McNeil;
Commissioned: 17DEC20 with LCdr Andrew C. Bennett in command;
Decommissioned: 22MAY35; Recommissioned: 2DEC40;
Decommissioned and struck from the Navy List 4OCT44;
Sunk as target 18 miles off Key West 3APR45
Attached to SubDiv18, USS S-16 (SS-121) departed New London on 31 May 1921, and sailed via the Panama Canal, California, Hawaii, and Guam to the Philippines. She arrived at Cavite, Luzon, on 1 December.
In 1922, she sailed from Cavite on 11 October, visited Hong Kong from the 14th to the 28th, and returned to Cavite on 1 November. Sailing from Manila on 15 May 1923, S-16 visited Shanghai, Chefoo, and Chinwangtao before returning via Woosung and Amoy to Cavite on 11 September. In the summer of 1924, she again visited China and returned to Olongapo on 23 September.
Departing Cavite on 29 October, she arrived at Mare Island, California, on 30 December. Remaining at Mare Island in 1925 and 1926, she operated along the west coast through 1927, with a visit to Hawaii in July and August. From February 1928 into 1935, S-16 served in the Panama Canal area, although she visited Baltimore from 15 May to 5 June 1933. She departed Coco Solo on 25 January 1935 for Philadelphia, where she decommissioned on 22 May.
S-16
was recommissioned on 2 December 1940. Following voyages to Bermuda, she operated at St. Thomas from December 1941 through March 1942; in the Panama Canal area from April into August; and from New London during September and into June 1944, with operations at Casco Bay, Maine.She was decommissioned on 4 October 1944 and struck from the Navy List. S-16 was intentionally destroyed by sinking on 3 April 1945, off Key West, Florida.