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Owned slide with copyright
1982
Pounds scrapyard,Portsmouth. Arrived 1965
-18 Class Submarine (Holland-type): Laid down, 17 April 1919, at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy MA.; Launched, 9 November 1922; Commissioned, USS S-29 (SS-134), 22 May 1924; Decommissioned, 5 June 1942; Transferred to the United Kingdom; Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS P 556; Returned to US Naval custody, and struck from the Naval Register, 26 January 1946; Final Disposition, sold for scraping, 24 January 1947, H. G. Pound, Great Britain.
Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 854 t., Submerged: 1,062 t.; Length 219' 3" ; Beam 20' 8"; Draft 15' 11"(mean); Depth Limit 200'; Speed, Surfaced 14.5 kts, Submerged 11 kts; Complement, 4 Officers, 34 Enlisted; Armament, four 21" torpedo tubes, 12 torpedoes, one 4"/50 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel-electric, New London Ship & Engine diesel engines, hp 1200, Fuel Capacity, 41,192 gals.; Ridgeway Dynamo & Electric Co., electric motors, hp 1500, Battery Cells, 120, twin propellers.
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