Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
United States Navy — Submarine

USS S-41

S-class submarine

USS S-41
U.S. Navy photograph — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08146.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate United States Navy submarine in the Far East .

Service

  1. United States Navy as USS S-4115 January 1924 — 13 February 19451,992 days of the war
S-class submarine Particulars
Name
USS S-41
Builder
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California
Laid down
17 April 1919
Launched
21 February 1921
Commissioned
15 January 1924
Decommissioned
13 February 1945
Struck
25 February 1946
Fate
Sold for scrap November 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-41 was a S-class submarine, operated by the United States Navy. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California laid her keel on 17 April 1919. She entered service on 15 January 1924, having been launched on 21 February 1921.

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 1,992 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 13 February 1945. She was struck from the register on 25 February 1946.

She was broken up for scrap in November 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

86 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from USS S-41 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: U.S. Navy photograph — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08146.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons