USS S-44 (SS-155)
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| Name: | USS S-44 |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 19 February 1921 |
| Launched: | 27 October 1923 |
| Commissioned: | 16 February 1925 |
| Fate: | Sunk by Japanese frigate Ishigaki, 7 October 1943 |
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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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| Range: | 185 tons oil fuel; 120-cell Exide battery |
| Complement: | 42 officers and men |
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| Service record | |
| Operations: | World War II |
| Victories: | 2 battle stars |
USS S-44 (SS-155) was a third-group (S-42) S-class submarine of the United States Navy.
Her keel was laid down on 19 February 1921 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 27 October 1923 sponsored by Mrs. H. E. Grieshaber, and was commissioned on 16 February 1925 with Lieutenant A. H. Bateman in command.
S-44 operated off the New England coast into the summer of 1925. In late August, she departed New London, Connecticut, for Panama and on 5 September arrived at Coco Solo to join Submarine Division (SubDiv) 19. With the division, she conducted training exercises, participated in fleet exercises and joint Army-Navy maneuvers, and made good will visits to various Caribbean and Pacific, Latin American ports until the spring of 1927. From that time to December 1930, she operated out of San Diego with her division, interrupting exercises off southern California twice for fleet problems in Hawaiian waters.
In December 1930, the S-boat was transferred to Hawaii where her division, now SubDiv 11, was home ported for four years. The boats then returned to San Diego, California and in 1937 were shifted back to Coco Solo.
In the spring of 1941, as American involvement in World War II increased, the Panama S-boats were ordered back to the east coast for overhaul. With sister ships S-42 and S-46, S-44 proceeded to New London, Connecticut, and in November went to Philadelphia, where the work was completed.
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