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During World War II, Coco Solo also served as a Naval Air Facility, housing a squadron of United States Army Air Forces P-38 Lightning aircraft. [ 7 ] By the 1960s, no U.S. Navy vessels remained, only some support staff and housing.
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.
The subs based at Coco Solo were R-class boats—186 feet long, displacing less than 700 tons submerged, and armed with one 3-inch gun and four 21-inch torpedoes in bow tubes. Plans to boost the naval defenses of the Canal Zone were soon curtailed by the Washington Naval Treaty, signed on 6 February 1922.
In 1957, Coco Solo became the Coco Solo Annex to US Naval Station Rodman21. By the 1960s, no US Navy vessels remained, only some support staff and housing22. Until the mid-1990s, the town site of Coco Solo was used by the civilian employees of the Panama Canal as a residential area. PBY-1 Catalina flying boat of US Navy VP-3
Coco Solo was a United States Navy submarine base and naval air station near the Panama Canal, active from 1918 to the 1960s. Map. Directions. Satellite. Photo Map.
During World War II, Coco Solo also served as a Naval Air Facility, housing a squadron of United States Army Air Forces P-38 Lightning aircraft. [7] By the 1960s, no U.S. Navy vessels remained, only some support staff and housing.
Coco Solo was a United States Navy submarine base established in 1918 on the Atlantic Ocean (northwest) side of the Panama Canal Zone, near Colón, Panama. US Senator John McCain was born in 1936 at a small Navy hospital [1] [2] at Coco Solo Naval Air Station.
