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Photo # NH 46339:  USS S-22 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, 21 November 1929

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USS S-22 (SS-127), 1924-1942, 1944-1945

USS S-22, a 854-ton S-1 class submarine built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in June 1924. Though usually stationed in the Atlantic, S-22 visited Hawaii in 1925 and was based at Pearl Harbor from 1931 to 1938. She also operated occasionally in the Panama Canal and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Transferred to the British Royal Navy in June 1942, she was renamed HMS P-554. After being returned to the U.S. Navy in July 1944, S-22 spent the rest of World War II on target and experimental service. She was stricken from the Navy List in August 1945 and sold for scrapping in November of that year.

This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have concerning USS S-22 (SS-127).

For more images related to this submarine, see:

  • USS S-22 (SS-127) -- On Board and Close Up Views.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 46339

    USS S-22 (SS-127)


    At the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 21 November 1929, showing changes in superstructure, including marker bouy, escape hatch and lifting eyes.
    S-22's 4"/50 deck gun is trained out on her port quarter, with barrel elevated to clear torpedo loading slide installed between the gun and the escape hatch.

    Collection of Rear Admiral Ridley McLean, USN, 1935.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42099

    USS S-22 (SS-127)


    View from off the port quarter, taken at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 21 November 1929, showing newly installed marker bouy (aft), motor room escape hatch and lifting eyes (on hull sides).

    Collection of Rear Admiral Ridley McLean, USN, 1935.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 118KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 68899

    USS S-22 (SS-127)


    At New York City, circa the 1930s.
    Inboard submarines are (left-to-right):
    R-11 (SS-88); R-13 (SS-90) and R-4 (SS-81).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 465 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 68898

    Submarines at New York City
    , circa the 1930s

    These "boats" are, from left-to-right:
    USS R-11 (SS-88); USS R-13 (SS-90), USS R-4 (SS-81) and USS S-22 (SS-127).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90515

    USS S-22 (SS-127)


    Ship's Complement, at New London, Connecticut, Summer 1941.
    Officers, seated in front center, are (left-to-right):
    Lieutenant Joseph F. Enright, USN;
    Lieutenant Commander George H. Wales, USN, Commanding Officer;
    Lieutenant Ernest S. Friedrick, USN; and
    Ensign Alvin E. Kirstein, USNR.

    Courtesy of Captain Joseph F. Enright, USN(Retired), 1979.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-66813

    HMS P-554

    (British Submarine, 1942-44; formerly USS S-22, SS-127)

    In Placentia Sound, Newfoundland, in April 1943.
    Note harbor defense net in the background.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 600 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     

    For more images related to this submarine, see:

  • USS S-22 (SS-127) -- On Board and Close Up Views.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 20 November 1998.
    Revised and expanded 19 July 2003