USS S-12
S-3-class submarine
Service
- as S-1230 April 1923 — 18 May 19452,086 days of the war
- Name
- USS S-12
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-117
- Builder
- Portsmouth Navy Yard, on Seavey Island, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 8 January 1920
- Launched
- 4 August 1921
- Commissioned
- 30 April 1923
- Decommissioned
- 30 September 1936
- Recommissioned
- 4 November 1940
- Struck
- 19 May 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 28 October 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 930 long tons (945 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,138 long tons (1,156 t)
- Length
- 70.41 m (231 ft)
- Beam
- 6.4 m (21 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 38
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
USS S-12 was a S-3-class submarine built for the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number SS-117. Her keel was laid at Portsmouth Navy Yard, on Seavey Island, Kittery, Maine on 8 January 1920. Launched on 4 August 1921, she entered service on 30 April 1923.
The boat displaced 930 long tons surfaced and 1,138 long tons submerged. She measured 70.4 m (231 ft) long with a beam of 6.4 m (21 ft). Her designed speed was 14 knots, and she carried a complement of 38.
Her main battery was one 102 mm (4 in) guns. Her machinery developed 2,000 bhp.
She was in commission for 2,086 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 30 September 1936. She recommissioned on 4 November 1940. She was struck from the register on 19 May 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 28 October 1945.
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 × MAN–New York Navy Yard, S6V45/42 diesel engines
- 2 × Westinghouse Electric Corporation electric motors
- 2 × 60-cell batteries
- 2 × Propellers
- Power
- 2000 bhp diesel
- 1200 hp electric
- Armament
- 4 × Bow 21 in torpedo tubes (12 torpedoes)
- 1 × Stern 21-in torpedo tube (2 torpedoes)
- 1 × 4 in/50-caliber
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS S-12 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons