USS S-19
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS S-19 |
Builder | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts[1] |
Laid down | 15 August 1918[1] |
Launched | 21 June 1920[1] |
Sponsored by | Miss Genevieve Kittinger |
Commissioned | 24 August 1921[1] |
Decommissioned | 8 March 1922 |
Recommissioned | 6 January 1923 |
Decommissioned | 10 February 1934[1] |
Stricken | 12 December 1936[1] |
Fate | Scuttled 18 December 1938[2] |
General characteristics | |
Type | diesel-electric submarine, S-1 type[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 219 ft 3 in (66.83 m)[2] |
Beam | 20 ft 8 in (6.30 m)[2] |
Draft | 15 ft 11 in (4.85 m) mean[2] |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | |
Endurance | 20 hours at 5 kn (5.8 mph; 9.3 km/h)[3] |
Test depth | 200 ft (61 m)[3] |
Complement | 38 men[2] |
Armament |
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USS S-19 (SS-124) was a first-group (S-1 or "Holland") S-class submarine of the United States Navy. She was in commission from 1921 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1934 and served in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Construction and commissioning
S-19′s
Service history
After preliminary
S-19 operated off the
Repaired and returned to service with the fleet, S-19 continued her Atlantic operations until 22 October 1930, when she departed New London for the Pacific Ocean. The submarine arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 7 December 1930, and for the next three years operated from there. She was decommissioned at Pearl Harbor on 10 February 1934.
Disposal
S-19 was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 December 1936. She was towed to sea and scuttled on 18 December 1938 in accordance with the terms of the Second London Naval Treaty.
In fiction
In Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series, S-19 remains in service into World War II and is transported to an alternate Earth along with several other vessels, including the destroyers USS Walker and USS Mahan.
S-19 was featured in the Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth campaign Raid on Innsmouth.
References
- ^ ISBN 1-55750-263-3.
- ^ ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
- ^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 p. 258
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.