Lost Boats
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Lost Boats

USS R-12 (SS 89)

LOST WITH ALL HANDS SAVE 3 - 12 JUN 1943

Lost on 12 JUN 1943 with the loss of 42 officers and men near Key West, FL during a practice torpedo approach when Forward Battery compartment flooded. The cause was probably due to flooding through a torpedo tube.

The Commanding Officer and two other men on the bridge survived, as did eighteen crew members on liberty at the time of the accident.

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