USS S-34
Service
- as USS S-3412 July 1922 — 23 October 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS S-34
- Builder
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
- Laid down
- 28 May 1918
- Launched
- 13 February 1919
- Commissioned
- 12 July 1922
- Decommissioned
- 25 October 1922
- Recommissioned
- 23 April 1923
- Struck
- 1 November 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 854 long tons (868 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,062 long tons (1,079 t)
- Length
- 66.75 m (219 ft)
- Beam
- 6.1 m (20 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h, 16.7 mph)
- Complement
- 42
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
USS S-34 was a S-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation on 28 May 1918. She entered service on 12 July 1922, having been launched on 13 February 1919.
111 ships of the class were built.
The boat displaced 854 long tons surfaced and 1,062 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 42.
Her main battery was one 102 mm (4 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 25 October 1922. She recommissioned on 23 April 1923. She was struck from the register on 1 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap in 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 1 × 4 in/50 deck gun
- 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Sister ships
- HMS P222
- HMS P551
- HMS Sabre (H18)
- HMS Safari
- HMS Saga
- HMS Sahib
- HMS Saladin
- HMS Salmon (N65)
- HMS Saracen (P247)
- HMS Sardonyx
- HMS Satyr (P214)
- HMS Saumarez (G12)
- HMS Sceptre (P215)
- HMS Scorcher
- HMS Scorpion (G72)
- HMS Scotsman (P243)
- HMS Scourge (G01)
- HMS Scout (1918)
- HMS Scythian
- HMS Sea Devil
- HMS Sea Nymph (P223)
- HMS Sea Rover
- HMS Sea Scout
- HMS Seadog
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS S-34 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy photograph — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08139.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons