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Photo # 19-LC-49T-1:  USS S-41 fitting out on 27 December 1923

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USS S-41 (SS-146), 1924-1946

USS S-41, a 1062-ton S-1 class submarine built at San Francisco, California, was commissioned in January 1924. She served along the west coast for several months and in September-November crossed the Pacific to join the Asiatic Fleet, her assignment for the next seventeen years. During that time, she was mainly engaged in peacetime activities in the Philippines and off China. After the Pacific War began on 8 December 1941, S-41 operated in defense of the Philippines and, when that mission became hopeless early in 1942, went south to serve in the Dutch East Indies. Once the Japanese had conquered that region, she was transferred to Australia.

S-41 operated out of Fremantle and Brisbane, Australia, until September 1942, making patrols into the Solomon Islands. She then returned to the United States for the first time since September 1924 and began a major overhaul in an attempt to correct the materiel problems that constantly troubled her class of elderly submarines. In April 1943, S-41 was sent to the north Pacific, where she sank a Japanese merchant ship in late May. Her operations in the region continued until later in the year, when she began training duty at Pearl Harbor. Late in 1944 she went back to the west coast, where she was decommissioned in February 1945. USS S-41 was sold for scrapping in November 1946.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS S-41 (SS-146).


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Photo #: 19-LC-49T-1

USS S-41 (SS-146)


Fitting out at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Union Plant, Potrero Works, San Francisco, California, on 27 December 1923.

Photograph from the Collections of the U.S. National Archives.

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Photo #: NH 104940

USS Canopus
(AS-9)

In Apra Harbor, Guam, 29 October 1924, with all six members of Submarine Division 17 alongside.
The division consisted of:
USS S-36 (SS-141);
USS S-37 (SS-142);
USS S-38 (SS-143);
USS S-39 (SS-144);
USS S-40 (SS-145); and
USS S-41 (SS-146).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 625 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 55048

USS Canopus
(AS-9)

In Apra Harbor, Guam, with Submarine Division 17 alongside, 29 October 1924.
Submarine Division 17's members were:
USS S-36 (SS-141);
USS S-37 (SS-142);
USS S-38 (SS-143);
USS S-39 (SS-144);
USS S-40 (SS-145); and
USS S-41 (SS-146).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: 80-G-1014615

USS Canopus (AS-9)


With the Asiatic Fleet's Submarine Squadron Five alongside, during the 1930s.
The submarines present include (from left to right): S-37 (SS-142); S-40 (SS-145); S-36 (SS-141); S-38 (SS-143); S-41 (SS-146); S-39 (SS-144).

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

Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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

 
Photo #: NH 69039

USS S-41 (SS-146)


View looking forward, with her decks cleared, just before making a dive off the California coast near San Francisco, 26 February 1924.
Her diving planes are rigged out.

Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 620 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 51832

Submarine Division Seventeen (SubDiv 17)


Boats of SubDiv 17, Asiatic Fleet, moored alongside USS Canopus (AS-9) at Tsingtao, China, circa 1930.
Identifiable submarines present include S-39 (SS-144), S-37 (SS-142) and S-41 (SS-146). The boat closest to the camera is probably S-36 (SS-141).
Note Sailors on deck in various states of relaxation, several Chinese men on board the submarines, SubDiv 17 insignia painted on conning towers, and 4"/50 deck guns.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 59968

Submarine Division Seventeen (SubDiv 17)


Boats of SubDiv 17, Asiatic Fleet, moored alongside USS Canopus (AS-9) at Tsingtao, China, circa 1930.
Identifiable submarines present include S-36 (SS-141), S-39 (SS-144), S-37 (SS-142) and S-41 (SS-146).
Note Sailors relaxing on deck, Chinese men on board the submarines, and 4"/50 deck guns.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 455 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 59969

Submarine Division Seventeen (SubDiv 17)


Boats of SubDiv 17, Asiatic Fleet, moored alongside USS Canopus (AS-9) at Tsingtao, China, in 1930.
Submarines in the foreground include (from left to right):
USS S-40 (SS-145);
USS S-38 (SS-143); and
USS S-41 (SS-146).

Another submarine is approaching, in the center distance.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 51833

USS S-38 (SS-143)


Nested between sister submarines S-40 (SS-145), at left, and S-41 (SS-146), at right, alongside USS Canopus (AS-9) off Tsingtao, China, in 1930.
Note these submarines' 4"/50 deck guns.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 127KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 51831

USS S-38 (SS-143)


Nested between sister submarines S-41 (SS-146), at left, and S-40 (SS-145), at right, alongside USS Canopus (AS-9) at Tsingtao, China, in 1930.
Note awnings spread aft on these submarines.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: 80-G-77065

Submarine Squadron FIVE (SubRon 5)


A Chief Torpedoman paints another "hashmark" on the Torpedo Shop scoreboard of Japanese ships claimed sunk by SubRon 5's "S-Boats", operating out of Brisbane, Australia, during April-November 1942.
Photographed on board USS Griffin (AS-13), tender to the squadron. Submarines listed on the scoreboard include S-37 (SS-142), S-38 (SS-143), S-39 (SS-144), S-40 (SS-145), S-41 (SS-146), S-42 (SS-153), S-43 (SS-154), S-44 (SS-155), S-45 (SS-156), S-46 (SS-157), and S-47 (SS-158).
The original caption dates the photo on 7 January 1943, but it may have been taken earlier, as Griffin left Australia in November 1942.

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

Online Image: 104KB; 585 x 765 pixels

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

 


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Page made 31 May 2002
New images added 28 August 2007