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

USS S-35

S-class submarine

USS S-35
U.S. Navy photograph — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08140.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate United States Navy submarine off San Diego , California .

Service

  1. United States Navy as USS S-3517 August 1922 — 19 March 19452,026 days of the war
S-class submarine Particulars
Name
USS S-35
Builder
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California
Laid down
14 June 1918
Launched
27 February 1919
Commissioned
17 August 1922
Decommissioned
25 October 1922
Recommissioned
7 May 1923
Fate
Sunk as target 4 April 1946 (1946)
Status
Wreck

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-35 was a S-class submarine in service with the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California on 14 June 1918. Launched on 27 February 1919, she entered service on 17 August 1922.

Her class ran to 111 ships.

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 2,026 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 25 October 1922. She recommissioned on 7 May 1923.

She was expended as a target on 4 April 1946. The wreck survives.

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-35 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: U.S. Navy photograph — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08140.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons