USS S-36 (SS-141)
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| Name: | USS S-36 |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 10 December 1918 |
| Launched: | 3 June 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 4 April 1923 |
| Fate: | Run aground, scuttled 21 January 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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| Service record | |
| Operations: | World War II |
| Awards: | 1 battle star |
USS S-36 (SS-141) was a S-class submarine in the United States Navy.
Her keel was laid down on 10 December 1918 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation of San Francisco. She was launched on 3 June 1919 sponsored by Miss Helen Russell, and commissioned on 4 April 1923 with Lieutenant Leon C. Alford in command.
Following trials, S-36 operated along the West Coast with interruptions for exercises in Alaskan waters in June 1923 and for fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea during the winter of 1924, until the following summer. Then assigned to the Asiatic Fleet, she moved west in mid-September and arrived at the Submarine Base, Cavite, Philippines, on 4 November.
For the next sixteen years, she remained in the western Pacific, conducting exercises and patrols and undergoing overhauls in the Philippines during the winter and operating off the China coast, out of Tsingtao, during the summer months. With the increase of hostilities on the mainland, however, summer deployments were shortened and individual patrols were extended throughout the Philippines, into the South China Sea, and, in 1938, to the Netherlands East Indies.
From April to June 1940, the S-boat conducted her last China deployment and for the next year and a half remained in Philippine waters. By December 1941, the fleet had been alerted to the possibility of a Japanese attack. On 2 Dec., S-36’s scheduled overhaul was cancelled and she was ordered north on patrol.
Water, stores, and torpedoes were taken on; and, at 01:00 on 3 Dec., she got underway. By late afternoon, she was off Cape Bolinao, where she passed several Yangtze Patrol gunboats working their way to Manila. At 19:30, she entered Bolinao harbor, where she remained on continuous alert for the next week. On 8 December, she received the news that the Japanese had started hostilities.
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