USS L-10 (SS-50)

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Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	17 February 1915
Launched:	16 March 1916
Commissioned:	2 August 1916
Decommissioned:	5 May 1922
Fate:	sold for scrap
Stricken:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	450 tons surfaced, 548 tons submerged
Length:	167 feet 5 inches
Beam:	17 feet 5 inches
Draft:	13 feet 7 inches
Propulsion:
Speed:	14 knots surfaced, 10.5 knots submerged
Range:
Complement:	28 officers and men
Armament:	one three-inch gun, four 18-inch torpedo tubes
Motto:

USS L-10 (SS-50) was an L-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 17 February 1915 by Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 16 March 1916 sponsored by Miss Catherine Rush, and commissioned on 2 August 1916 with Lieutenant (junior grade) J. C. Van de Carr in command.

Assigned to the Atlantic Submarine Flotilla, L-10 operated along the east coast until April 1917 developing new techniques or undersea warfare.

Following the United States's entry into World War I, submarines were needed to protect Allied shipping lanes to Europe. After an extensive overhaul, preparing her for the task ahead, L-10 departed Newport, Rhode Island, on 4 December, reaching the Azores on 19 December. She patrolled waters off the Azores for the next month before joining Submarine Division 5 in the British Isles in January 1918. Based in Britain throughout the rest of the war, L-10 and the other ships of her division conducted anti-U-boat patrols.

After the Armistice with Germany on 11 November, L-10 remained in England until sailing for the United States on 3 January 1919. Arriving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 1 February, the submarine operated along the Atlantic coast for the next four years, developing submarine warfare tactics. L-10 decommissioned at Philadelphia 5 May 1922, and was sold 31 July 1922 to Joseph G. Hinter of Philadelphia.

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This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

L-class submarine
Designed by Electric Boat
L-1 | L-2 | L-3 | L-4 | L-9 | L-10 | L-11
Designed by Lake Torpedo Boat
L-5 | L-6 | L-7 | L-8
List of submarines of the United States Navy List of submarine classes of the United States Navy