USS S-37

S-class submarine

Service

United States Navy as USS S-3716 July 1923 — 23 February 19452,002 days of the war

S-class submarine Particulars

Name: USS S-37
Builder: Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California
Laid down: 12 December 1918
Launched: 20 June 1919
Commissioned: 16 July 1923
Decommissioned: 6 February 1945
Struck: 23 February 1945
Fate: Broke tow and sank 20 February 1945 (1945)
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) OA
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-37 was a S-class submarine in service with the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California on 12 December 1918. Launched on 20 June 1919, she entered service on 16 July 1923.

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 2,002 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 6 February 1945. She was struck from the register on 23 February 1945.

She was sunk on 20 February 1945, at 32°36′N 117°08′W. The wreck survives.

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

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: NLSE diesels, 1200 hp
General Electric motors, 1500 hp
120 cell Exide battery
2 shafts
Armament: 1 × 4 in/50 caliber deck gun
4 × 21-inch (533 mm) forward torpedo tubes
12 torpedoes

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from USS S-37 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: U.S. Navy photograph — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08142.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons