USS S-40
Service
- as USS S-4020 November 1923 — 29 October 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS S-40
- Builder
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California
- Laid down
- 5 March 1919
- Launched
- 5 January 1921
- Commissioned
- 20 November 1923
- Decommissioned
- 29 October 1945
- Struck
- 13 November 1945
- Fate
- Sold November 1946
Scrapped July 1947 (1946) - Status
- Scrapped
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-40 was a S-class submarine, operated by the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California on 5 March 1919. Launched on 5 January 1921, she entered service on 20 November 1923.
She was one of 111 ships of her class.
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 2,193 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 in 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
- Armament
- 1 × 4 in/50 deck gun
- 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Sister ships
- HMS P222
- HMS P551
- HMS Sabre (H18)
- HMS Safari
- HMS Saga
- HMS Sahib
- HMS Saladin
- HMS Salmon (N65)
- HMS Saracen (P247)
- HMS Sardonyx
- HMS Satyr (P214)
- HMS Saumarez (G12)
- HMS Sceptre (P215)
- HMS Scorcher
- HMS Scorpion (G72)
- HMS Scotsman (P243)
- HMS Scourge (G01)
- HMS Scout (1918)
- HMS Scythian
- HMS Sea Devil
- HMS Sea Nymph (P223)
- HMS Sea Rover
- HMS Sea Scout
- HMS Seadog
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS S-40 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy photograph — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08145.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons