USS L-3, a 450-ton L-1 class submarine, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. After entering commissioned service in April 1916 she operated along the U.S. East Coast, performing peacetime duties and, after the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, making patrols to counter possible U-Boat activity. From late November 1917 to mid-January L-3 voyaged to the Azores, by way of Bermuda. In February she went on to Bantry Bay, Ireland, from which she conducted patrols against German submarines for the rest of the conflict. Returning to the U.S. during the first month of 1919, L-3 spent the next several years on experimental duty out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New London, Connecticut. She was decommissioned in June 1923 and, after a decade of inactivity, was scrapped in 1933.
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