R-3 (SS-80)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Submarine
Class	R-1
Pennant	80
Built by	Fore River Shipbuilding Co. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	12 Dec 1917
Launched	18 Jan 1919
Commissioned	17 Apr 1919
End service	4 Nov 1941
History	Decommissioned 10 August 1934. Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Recommissioned 19 August 1940. Decommissioned and transferred to the United Kingdom 4 November 1941, commissioned into the Royal Navy as P 511. Stricken by the U.S.N. 7 November 1941. P 511 was scrapped at Troon, Scotland in February 1948.
Career notes	Loaned to the Royal Navy as P 511

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt. John Corbus, USN	19 Aug 1940	4 Nov 1941

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