Attempts were made by the Finns to salvage the vessel: the boat was raised in 1918 and transferred to Helsinki for repair, but this proved too costly and she was scrapped in 1929.

[3] Components for the first batch of five submarines were assembled in Barnet, near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

There they were loaded onto the Trans-Siberian Railroad and transported to Saint Petersburg where they were assembled by the Baltic Works by June 1916.

The Russian submarines AG-11, AG-12, AG-15 and AG-16 were scuttled in the harbor of Hanko on 3 April 1918 just prior to the German landing there.

AG-16 was transferred to Helsinki and the Finns asked both Germany and Electric Boat for estimates on the cost of repairs.

German experts evaluated AG-16, but the Finnish government never provided funds for the repairing of the submarine.