USS S-27
S-18-class submarine
Service
- as S-2722 January 1924 — 19 June 19421,022 days of the war
- Name
- USS S-27
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-132
- Builder
- Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
- Ordered
- 4 March 1917
- Laid down
- 11 April 1919
- Launched
- 18 October 1922
- Commissioned
- 22 January 1924
- Fate
- Grounded, 19 June 1942, abandoned, 25 June 1942 (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 930 long tons (945 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,094 long tons (1,112 t)
- Length
- 66.75 m (219 ft)
- Beam
- 6.1 m (20 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h, 16.7 mph)
- Range
- 3,420 nmi (6,334 km)
- Complement
- 38
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
USS S-27 was a S-18-class submarine in service with the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number SS-132. Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts laid her keel on 11 April 1919. She entered service on 22 January 1924, having been launched on 18 October 1922.
The boat displaced 930 long tons surfaced and 1,094 long tons submerged. She measured 66.8 m (219 ft) long with a beam of 6.1 m (20 ft). Her designed speed was 14.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 38.
Her main battery was one 102 mm (4 in) guns. Her machinery developed 1,200 bhp.
She was in commission for 1,022 days of the Second World War.
She was wrecked on 19 June 1942, at 51°20′N 179°12′E.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × NELSECO diesel engines
- 2 × Ridgway Dynamo & Engine Company electric motors
- 2 × 60-cell batteries
- 2 × Propellers
- Power
- 1200 bhp diesel
- 2375 hp electric
- Armament
- 4 × 21 in torpedo tubes (12 torpedoes)
- 1 × 4 in/50-caliber
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS S-27 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — http://ussnautilus.org/blog/the-loss-of-uss-s-27-ss-132-but-not-her-crew/ — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons