USS S-12
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| History | |
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| Name | USS S-12 |
| Builder | Portsmouth Navy Yard |
| Laid down | 8 January 1920 |
| Launched | 4 August 1921 |
| Commissioned | 30 April 1923 |
| Decommissioned | 30 September 1936 |
| Recommissioned | 4 November 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 18 May 1945 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap 28 October 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | S-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 231 ft (70 m) |
| Beam | 21 ft 10 in (6.65 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 1 in (3.99 m) |
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| Complement | 42 officers and men |
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USS S-12 (SS-117) was a second-group (S-3 or "Government")
launched on 4 August 1921 sponsored by Mrs. Gordon Woodbury and commissioned on 30 April 1923 with Lieutenant Francis S. Low
in command.
Following duty along the northeast coast in 1923 and a visit to
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, on 30 September 1936.
S-12 was recommissioned on 4 November 1940. Following voyages to
Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, and Coco Solo, S-12 operated at St. Thomas from December 1941 into March 1942; in the Panama Canal area from April into June; at Guantánamo from June into December; in the Panama Canal area from that month into May 1944; at Trinidad from May into July; and at Guantánamo from July into 1945. Departing from Guantánamo on 25 March, S-12 was decommissioned on 18 May 1945 at Philadelphia, and was struck from the Naval Vessel Register. She was sold on 28 October that year to Rosoff Brothers of New York City. Resold to Northern Metals
Company of Philadelphia, on an unspecified date, she was scrapped.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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