USS S-47 (SS-158)
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USS S-47 departing Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in April 1927 bound for Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California.
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| Name: | USS S-47 |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 26 February 1921 |
| Launched: | 5 January 1924 |
| Commissioned: | 16 September 1925 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 October 1945 |
| Struck: | 13 November 1945 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, May 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: | 3 battle stars |
USS S-47 (SS-158) was a third-group (S-42) S-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 26 February 1921 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 5 January 1924 sponsored by Mrs. Morris D. Gilmore, and commissioned on 16 September 1925 with Lieutenant John Wilkes in command.
Following commissioning and fitting out, S-47 conducted engineering and torpedo tests off the southern New England coast. However, with the new year, 1926, she departed New England and moved south to join Submarine Division (SubDiv) 19 in the Panama Canal Zone.
She arrived at Coco Solo on 19 January and, for the next year and one-half, conducted local operations in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. During this period, her routine was broken by joint United States Army-United States Navy exercises testing the defenses of the canal; by Fleet Problem VI (February 1926) and VII (March 1927); and by extended training cruises in the Caribbean (June 1926 and April 1927). Transferred to San Diego, California, with her division in June 1927, she continued to participate in individual, division, fleet, and joint Army-Navy exercises into 1932. At that time, a period of inactivity in rotating reserve status was added to S-boat employment schedules.
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