USS S-18
S-18-class submarine
Service
- as S-183 April 1924 — 29 October 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS S-18
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-123
- Builder
- Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
- Laid down
- 15 August 1918
- Launched
- 29 April 1920
- Commissioned
- 3 April 1924
- Decommissioned
- 29 October 1945
- Struck
- 13 November 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 9 November 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
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-18 was a S-18-class submarine built for the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number SS-123. Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts laid her keel on 15 August 1918. Launched on 29 April 1920, she entered service on 3 April 1924.
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 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 29 October 1945. She was struck from the register on 13 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 9 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
- 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-18 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy photograph — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08123.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons