USS S-42 (SS-153)
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USS S-42 at San Diego, California, with aircraft carrier USS Langley (CV-1) in the background, sometime between 1924 and 1936.
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| Name: | USS S-42 |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 16 December 1920 |
| Launched: | 30 April 1923 |
| Commissioned: | 20 November 1924 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 October 1945 |
| Struck: | 13 November 1945 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, November 1946 |
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| Class and type: | S-class submarine |
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| Length: | 225 ft 3 in (68.66 m) |
| Beam: | 20 ft 8 in (6.30 m) |
| Draft: | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
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| Complement: | 42 officers and men |
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| Service record | |
| Operations: | World War II |
| Victories: | 1 battle star |
USS S-42 (SS-153) was the first member in the third group of S-class submarines of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 16 December 1920 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 30 April 1923 sponsored by Mrs. Henry A. Hutchins, Jr., and commissioned on 20 November 1924, Lieutenant John "Babe" Brown in command.
Following shakedown off the New England coast, S-42 departed New London, Connecticut, in January 1925 and moved south to Coco Solo, whence she operated, both in the Caribbean Sea and in the Pacific Ocean, until the spring of 1927. Then ordered to Hawaii, she cleared the Gulf of Panama in May, was refitted in California, and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 22 July. The following month, she joined other fleet units in searching for missing Dole Air Race competitors and, later in the year, returned to California. Overhaul followed; and, on 4 February 1928, she rejoined the Battle Force at San Diego, California, where she was based into 1930. In December of that year, S-42’s division was transferred to Pearl Harbor. She then operated in Hawaiian waters and during annual fleet problems, off the Panama Canal Zone and in the Caribbean. From 1932 through 1935, however, she rotated between those active duty operations with Submarine Division 11 and inactive periods with Reserve Submarine Division 14.
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