USS S-48

S-class submarine

Service

United States Navy as USS S-4814 October 1922 — 29 August 19452,188 days of the war

S-class submarine Particulars

Name: USS S-48
Builder: Lake Torpedo Boat Company
Laid down: 22 October 1920
Launched: 26 February 1921
Commissioned: 14 October 1922
Decommissioned: 7 July 1925
Recommissioned: 8 December 1928
Struck: 17 September 1945
Fate: Sold for scrapping 22 January 1946 (1946)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 993 long tons (1,009 t)
Displacement, submerged: 1,230 long tons (1,250 t)
Length: 73.15 m (240 ft)
Beam: 6.4 m (21 ft)
Draught: 3.96 m (13 ft)
Speed: 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h, 16.7 mph)
Complement: 38
Main gun: 102 mm (4 in)

USS S-48 was a S-class submarine, operated by the United States Navy. Lake Torpedo Boat Company laid her keel on 22 October 1920. Launched on 26 February 1921, she entered service on 14 October 1922.

She was one of 111 ships of her class.

The boat displaced 993 long tons surfaced and 1,230 long tons submerged. She measured 73.2 m (240 ft) long with a beam of 6.4 m (21 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.

She was in commission for 2,188 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 7 July 1925. She recommissioned on 8 December 1928. She was struck from the register on 17 September 1945.

She was broken up for scrap on 22 January 1946.

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

Armament and machinery

Armament: 1 × 4 in/50 deck gun
5 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from USS S-48 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Official U.S. Navy Photograph # 80-G-466552, now in the collections of the National Archives. — US Navy Image taken from NavSource — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons