USS S-34 (SS-139)
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USS S-34
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| Name: | USS S-34 |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 28 May 1918 |
| Launched: | 13 February 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 12 July 1922 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 October 1922 |
| Recommissioned: | 23 April 1923 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 October 1945 |
| Struck: | 1 November 1945 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1946 |
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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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| Service record | |
| Operations: | World War II |
| Awards: | 1 battle star |
USS S-34 (SS-139) was an S-class submarine of the United States Navy.
S-34 was laid down on 28 May 1918 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in San Francisco, California. She was launched on 13 February 1919 sponsored by Miss Florence Hellman, and commissioned on 12 July 1922 with Lieutenant Elroy L. Vanderkloot in command.
Following commissioning, S-34 was ordered to New London, Connecticut, for engineering alterations by the prime contractor, the Electric Boat Company. Decommissioned on 25 October 1922, she was delivered to the company which completed the work in the spring of 1923. The submarine was recommissioned on 23 April; and, after further trials and various exercises off the East Coast and in the Caribbean Sea, she returned to the West Coast, arriving at San Diego, California, her home port, on 6 August. For the next year and one-half, she remained based in southern California, then, in 1925, she was ordered to the Philippines. She departed from San Francisco, California, in mid-April, arrived at the Submarine Base, Cavite, P.I., on 12 July; and, after voyage repairs and an overhaul, commenced operations as a unit of the Asiatic Fleet. From then until 1932, she rotated between exercises, patrols, and overhauls in the Philippines during the winter and deployments to the China coast in the summer for operations out of Tsingtao. In 1932, she was ordered back to the eastern Pacific Ocean. She departed Manila on 2 May and headed for Pearl Harbor, whence she operated until April 1941. She then returned to San Diego.
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