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Controlled by. United States Navy. Site history. In use. 1918–1999. O-class submarines at Coco Solo in 1923. Coco Solo was a United States Navy submarine base and naval air station near the Panama Canal, active from 1918 to the 1960s.
- 1918–1999
- Naval base
Naval Station Coco Solo. Naval Station Coco Solo and Submarine Base Coco Solo was founded in 1917, near Fort Randolph, as a submarine base to protect the Canal Zone on the Atlantic Ocean side. Starting in 1914 with five United States C-class submarines that were stationed at the base.
- 1918–1999
- Naval base
The Navy, henceforth, used Army facilities for the operation of its landplanes in the Coco Solo area. Submarine Base. - Established in 1917, and later modernized, the submarine base...
The submarine base at Coco Solo was established 6 May 1918. The site corresponds with modern-day Cativá in Panama. It was on the Atlantic Ocean (northwest) side of the Panama Canal Zone, near Colón, Panama. Five C-class submarines were based there during 1914–1919.
The Navy, henceforth, used Army facilities for the operation of its landplanes in the Coco Solo area. Submarine Base. -- Established in 1917, and later modernized, the submarine base occupied a 130-acre peninsula bounded on the north by Margarita Bay and on the west and south by Manzanillo Bay. Important additions to all existing facilities ...
The submarine base and new airfield at Coco Solo were also open. To see the sites farther away, sailors could hire cars to visit the Gatun Locks, dam, and spillway; while there they could swim in Gatun Lake, fish for tarpon at the spillway, and maybe even play golf.
Coco Solo Submarine Base: Oil Store House, 11 December 1917. The submarines C-2 (SS-13), C-3 (SS-14), C-4 (SS-15); and C-5 (SS-16) appear in the upper left. Photo by Ernest Hallen, from the digital collection of Ron Armstrong, author of The Panama Canal, the Invisible Wonder of the World: 1.66k: US Sub Base, Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone: 26 ...
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