USS S-25 (SS-130)

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USS S-25 (SS-130)
HMS P.551
ORP Jastrząb
US Navy Royal Navy Polish Navy
Ship data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : S class (Holland class)
Navies :
Builder : Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts
Keel laying : October 26, 1918
Launch : May 29, 1922
Commissioning:
  • USN : July 9, 1923
  • RN : November 4, 1940
  • PL : 1940
Whereabouts: Sunk by friendly fire on May 2, 1942
Technical specifications
Displacement :
  • 854 ts surfaced
  • 1,062 ts submerged
Length : 67 m (219  ft )
Width: 6.3 m (20 ft 8  in )
Draft : 4.9 m (15 ft 11 in)
Drive :
Speed :
  • 14.5 kn (27  km / h ) surfaced
  • 11 kn (20 km / h) submerged
Diving depth : 61 m (200 ft)
Range : 5000 miles surfaced at 10 kn (19 km / h)
Crew : 42 officers and men
Armament
Artillery : 1 × 102 mm / L50 (4 in) gun
Air defense : 1 × 12.7 mm (0.5 in) Fla - MG
Torpedoes : 4 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes

USS S-25 (SS-130)   was a submarine of the United States Navy .

The Holland-class boat was taken over by the Royal Navy under the registration number HMS P.551 during World War II and then handed over to the Polish Navy . The Polish Navy put the submarine   into service under the name ORP Jastrząb .

Mission history

USS S-25 (1923-1941)

The boat was laid down on October 26, 1918 by Fore River Shipyard , a daughter of Bethlehem Steel , and entered service on July 9, 1923 under the command of Lieutenant Commander George H. Fort.

New London (Connecticut) served as the base in 1923 . S-25 participated in winter exercises in the Caribbean and Panama Canal Zone between January and April 1924 . Then she was ordered to the west coast of the USA where she mainly operated off the coast of Southern California until 1931 . Between March and May 1927 and February 1929 she returned off the coast of Panama . In 1927, 1928 and 1930 the S-25 drove to Hawaii .

On April 15, 1931, the submarine left its San Diego base to reach its new base in Pearl Harbor on April 25 . S-25 operated from Hawaii until 1939. On June 16, 1939, the submarine left Hawaii and sailed into the Atlantic. New London was reached on August 25th. Extensive repairs followed by February 1940. The boat was then used for testing purposes. In December 1940 S-25 was ordered to Key West , where it was used as a training boat until May 1941.

HMS P.551 / ORP Jastrząb (1941–1942)

After another overhaul in New London, the submarine was decommissioned on November 4th by the US Navy and taken over by the Royal Navy with the registration number HMS P.551 . Shortly thereafter, the British Navy handed the submarine over to the Polish, who put it into service under the command of captain marynarki Bolesław Romanowski under the name ORP Jastrząb .

The submarine was found on May 2, 1942 off the northern Norwegian coast at position 71 ° 30 '  N , 12 ° 32'  E by the Norwegian destroyer KNM St Albans (I 15) and the British minesweeper HMS Seagull with a German submarine confused and accidentally sunk . At this time, ORP Jastrząb was escorting the Northern Sea Convoy PQ-15 to Murmansk . Five Polish sailors were killed in this accident.

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II . Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9 .

Web links

Commons : United States S class submarine  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Polish Submarines  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ The English language Wikipedia United States S class submarine is not clear on the subject. The conversion into kilometers given there results in 8000 km, which indicates a country mile . In seafaring, however, the nautical mile is the usual size; then it would be 9260 km (see also: Anglo-American units of length )
  2. ↑ USS is the abbreviation for United States Ship and the name prefix of US ships. USS means ship of the United States .
  3. ↑ SS is the abbreviation for Ship Submersible , which means "submersible". Ship Submersible is the United States Navy's name for conventionally powered submarines.
  4. ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship (Sloop / Submarine) and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship ( sloop / submarine) .
  5. ↑ ORP is the abbreviation for Okręt Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej and the name prefix of Polish ships. ORP means Warship of the Republic of Poland .
  6. ↑ In the Polish language means Jastrząb hawk .
  7. ↑ kapitan marynarki is comparable to first lieutenant at sea .
  8. ↑ KNM is the abbreviation for Kongelige Norske Marine and the name prefix of Norwegian ships. KNM means Royal Norwegian Navy . The English variant of the prefix is HNoMS , which stands for His Norwegians Majesty's Ship ( His Norwegian Majesty's Ship ).