USS S-27 (SS-132)
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USS S-27
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| Name: | USS S-27 |
| Ordered: | March 1917 |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 11 April 1919 |
| Launched: | 18 October 1922 |
| Commissioned: | 22 January 1924 |
| Fate: | Run aground 19 June 1942, abandoned 21 June 1942 |
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| Class and type: | S-class submarine |
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| Length: | 219 ft 3 in (66.83 m) |
| Beam: | 20 ft 8 in (6.30 m) |
| Draft: | 15 ft 11 in (4.85 m) |
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| Complement: | 42 officers and men |
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USS S–27 (SS–132) was a S-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her construction was authorized in March 1917, and her keel was laid down on 11 April 1919 by the Fore River Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 18 October 1922 sponsored by Mrs. Frank Baldwin, and commissioned at Groton, Connecticut, on 22 January 1924, Lieutenant Theodore Waldschmidt in command.
Based at New London, Connecticut through 1924, S-27 was transferred to the Pacific in 1925, and, after exercises in the Hawaiian Islands during the spring of that year, she arrived at her new homeport, San Diego, California in June. She remained based in southern California through the decade and, except for fleet maneuvers, operated primarily off that coast. Fleet maneuvers, exercises, and problems took her to the west coast of Central America; to the Panama Canal Zone; into the Caribbean Sea and to Hawaii. In 1931, she was transferred to Hawaii; and on 23 February, she arrived at Pearl Harbor, whence she operated until mid-1939. On 16 June 1939, she sailed east; and on 27 June, she arrived at San Diego and resumed operations off the southern California coast.
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