Allied Warships

S-22 (SS-127)

Submarine of the S-1 class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeSubmarine
ClassS-1 
Pennant127 
Built byBethlehem Steel Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down6 Jan 1919 
Launched15 Jul 1920 
Commissioned23 Jun 1924 
End service19 Jun 1942 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 19 June 1942.
Transferred to the Royal Navy the same day and renamed HMS P-554.
Returned to US Naval custody 11 July 1944.
Stricken in August 1945.
Sold 16 November 1945 and broken up for scrap.

 
Career notesLoaned to the Royal Navy as P 554

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U. S. Submarines in World War II
Kimmett, Larry and Regis, Margaret


U.S. Submarines Through 1945
Friedman, Norman

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