Submarine class
United States S-class submarine
S class
The class in numbers
- 65 Planned
- 51 Completed
- 14 Cancelled
- 9 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Built
- 1918–1925
- In commission
- 1920–1946
- Preceded by
- R class
- Succeeded by
- V-boats
- Builders
- Fore River Shipyard (S-1 and S-42-class)
- Union Iron Works (S-1-class)
- Portsmouth Navy Yard (S-3-class)
- Lake Torpedo Boat (S-2, S-3 and S-48-class)
- Subclasses
- S-1, S-2, S-3, S-18, S-42, and S-48
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Prototype S class boats
- Displacement, surfaced
- 875 long tons (889 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,088 long tons (1,105 t)
- Length
- 70.4 m (231 ft)
- Speed
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Complement
- 38
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (bow), 12 torpedoes
- (S-10 to S-17 and S-48 to S-51 had an additional 21 inch stern tube with 2 additional torpedoes)
- 1 × 4-inch (102 mm)/50 caliber deck gun
Sources
- Facts harvested from United States S-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.