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|Ship name=USS ''R-10''
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|Ship ordered=29 August 1916
|Ship builder=[[Fore River Shipbuilding]], [[Quincy, Massachusetts]]
|Ship laid down=21 March 1918
|Ship launched=28 June 1919
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|Ship fate= Sold for scrap, January 1946
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|Ship type= [[United States R class submarine|R class]] [[submarine]]
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|Ship complement=34 officers and men
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'''USS ''R-10'' (SS-87)''' was an [[United States R class submarine|''R''-class coastal and harbor defense submarine]] of the [[United States Navy]].
==Construction and commissioning==
''R-10''′s [[keel]] was [[Keel-laying|laid down]] on 21 March 1918 by the [[Fore River Shipbuilding]] Company in [[Quincy, Massachusetts]]. She was [[Ceremonial ship naming launching|launched]] 28 June 1919, sponsored by Mrs. Philip C. Ransom, and [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 20 August 1919.
==Service history==
===1919&ndash;1930===
Fitted out at [[Boston, Massachusetts]], during the fall of 1919, ''R-10'' joined Submarine Division&nbsp;9 with the new year, 1920, and departed for winter maneuvers in the [[Gulf of Mexico]] on 15 January.  Based at [[Pensacola, Florida]], she completed final trials during March and in mid-April returned to [[New England]]. On 18 May she arrived at [[Newport, Rhode Island]] and, given [[hull classification symbol]] SS-87 in July, operated out of there and [[New London, Connecticut]]. With the fall she proceeded south again, underwent overhaul at [[Norfolk, Virginia]], remaining until April 1921. She then headed for the [[Panama Canal]] and duty in the Pacific.
''R-10'' arrived at [[San Pedro, California]], on 30 June for a two-year tour.  Toward the end of September, she added salvage operations to her record as she assisted {{USS|Cardinal|AM-6|3}} in raising {{USS|R-6|SS-83|3}} from the bottom of [[San Pedro Harbor]] on 13 October, then resumed individual and squadron exercises. In July 1923, the R-boat shifted to [[Pearl Harbor]] where, for the next seven and a half years she conducted training operations, including fleet problems, made occasional runs as far west as [[Midway Island]] and as far east as the West Coast, and participated in air-sea rescue operations for planes initiating transpacific air travel. Ordered back to the Atlantic in 1930, ''R-10'' cleared Pearl Harbor for the last time on 12 December.
===1931&ndash;1939===
On 9 February 1931, ''R-10'' arrived at New London and assumed training duties for the Submarine School there. During the spring, she underwent overhaul at [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire]], and in the summer added ASW [[destroyer]] training and [[Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps|NROTC]] cruises to her mission. Through the decade she continued her role as a training submarine and operated primarily off the New England coast with occasional temporary duty at stations on the mid-Atlantic seaboard, including the Diving School at [[Piney Point, Maryland]], in May 1937.
===1940&ndash;1946===
In September 1940, ''R-10'' participated in [[Bureau of Ordnance]] tests at Norfolk, then returned to New London. The following year she was transferred to [[Key West, Florida]]. From 1941 until the winter of 1943, she alternated patrols in the [[Yucatán Channel]] and the [[Florida Straits]] with operations for the [[Fleet Sonar School]] at Key West. Then, for the remainder of World War II, she concentrated on training duties. During February and into March 1945 she operated out of [[Port Everglades, Florida]], then returned to Key West where she remained until 4 June.  On that date ''R-10'' headed north for [[Philadelphia]], and inactivation. Arriving on 8 June, she decommissioned on 18 June and was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 11 July. In January 1946 she was sold for scrap to the [[North American Smelting]] Company in Philadelphia.
==Awards==
*[[American Defense Service Medal]] with "Fleet" clasp
*[[American Campaign Medal]]
*[[World War II Victory Medal]]
== References ==
{{Commons category|USS R-10}}
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*{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/r/r-10.html}}
==External links==
* {{navsource|08/08087|USS R-10}}
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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:1919 ships]]