USS S-4
USS S-4
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS S-4 |
Builder | Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine |
Laid down | 4 December 1917 |
Launched | 27 August 1919 |
Commissioned | 19 November 1919 |
Decommissioned | 7 April 1933 |
Out of service |
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Decommissioned | 19 March 1928 |
Recommissioned | 16 October 1928 |
Decommissioned | 7 April 1933 |
Stricken | 15 January 1936 |
Fate | Scuttled 15 May 1936 |
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) |
Speed |
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Complement | 42 officers and men |
Armament |
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USS S-4 (SS-109) was an S-class submarine of the United States Navy. In 1927, she was sunk by being accidentally rammed by a United States Coast Guard destroyer with the loss of all hands but was raised and restored to service until stricken in 1936.
Construction
S-4's
Service
Following acceptance trials, a visit to
S-4 operated out of the
Remaining at Mare Island in 1925, she operated along the U.S. West Coast through 1926, mainly at
Sinking
On 17 December 1927, while surfacing from a submerged run over the measured-mile off Provincetown, Massachusetts, she was accidentally rammed and sunk by the United States Coast Guard destroyer Paulding on Rum Patrol.[1]
Paulding stopped and lowered
During the course of the rescue operation Chief Gunner's Mate Thomas Eadie rescued, at the risk of his own life, a fellow diver, Fred Michels, who became fouled in the wreckage while attempting to attach an air hose to S-4. For his heroism Eadie was awarded the Medal of Honor.
S-4 was raised on 17 March 1928,
Return
S-4 was recommissioned on 16 October 1928, after repairs and conversion to a test vessel for submarine rescue experimentation. She served at
References
- ^ "Submarine Casualties Booklet". U.S. Naval Submarine School. 1966. Archived from the original on September 11, 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Williams, Joseph A. (2015). Seventeen fathoms deep: The saga of the submarine S-4 disaster. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press. p. 169. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ Owens, Roger (Voice), Wilbur, Curtis D. (U.S. Secretary of the Navy). (THE S-4) YESTERDAYS NEWSREEL 20TH CENTURY SPANISH CIVIL WAR WRIGHT DRAGONFLY PLANE ALBERT EINSTEIN 61114. PersicopeFilm. 6 minutes in. Retrieved 20 January 2021 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Central Press photo, "Navy Sinks Jinx Submarine", The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Tuesday 26 May 1936, Volume 42, page 2.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
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