USS H-5
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Design
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The boats were armed with four 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes in the bow. They carried four reloads, for a total of eight torpedoes.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Construction
H-5 was laid down on 12 May 1918, at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, she had been already been preassembled by the British Pacific Construction and Engineering Company, in Vancouver, Canada, for Imperial Russian Government, which had failed to exist in September 1917. She was launched on 24 September 1918, sponsored by Miss Mary Ingram Hoopes, and commissioned on 30 September 1918.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Service history
Operating out of San Pedro Submarine Base, San Pedro, California, with Submarine Divisions 6 and 7 (SubDivs 6 and SubDiv 7), H-5 participated in various training and battle exercises, with periodic overhauls at the Mare Island Navy Yard.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Fate
She departed San Francisco, California, on 25 July 1922, in company with both divisions and arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 14 September. H-5 decommissioned at Norfolk, on 20 October 1922. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 26 February 1931. She was sold for scrapping on 28 November 1933.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
References
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External links
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- PigBoats.COM H-class page
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