USS S-45

S-class submarine

Service

United States Navy as USS S-4531 March 1925 — 30 October 19452,193 days of the war

S-class submarine Particulars

Name: USS S-45
Builder: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts
Laid down: 29 December 1920
Launched: 26 June 1923
Commissioned: 31 March 1925
Decommissioned: 30 October 1945
Struck: 13 November 1945
Fate: Sold for scrapping December 1946 (1946)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 850 long tons (864 t)
Displacement, submerged: 1,126 long tons (1,144 t)
Length: 68.58 m (225 ft)
Beam: 6.1 m (20 ft)
Draught: 4.88 m (16 ft)
Speed: 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h, 16.7 mph)
Complement: 42
Main gun: 102 mm (4 in)

USS S-45 was a S-class submarine of the United States Navy. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts laid her keel on 29 December 1920. She entered service on 31 March 1925, having been launched on 26 June 1923.

She was one of 111 ships of her class.

The boat displaced 850 long tons surfaced and 1,126 long tons submerged. She measured 68.6 m (225 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 30 October 1945. She was struck from the register on 13 November 1945.

She was broken up for scrap in December 1946.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

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-45 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: U.S. Navy photograph — This image was released by the United States Navy with the ID NH 42186 42186#mw-category-media (next) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons