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S-9 (SS-114)

S-4 Class Submarine (Government-type): Laid down, 20 January 1919, at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME.; Launched, 17 June 1920; Commissioned, USS S-9 (SS-114), 21 February 1921; Decommissioned, 15 April 1931, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.; Laid up in the Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Naval Register, 25 January 1937; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 25 January 1937.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 876 t., Submerged: 1092 t..; Length 231' ; Beam 21' 10"; Draft 13' 1"; Speed, surfaced 15 kts, submerged 11 kts; Depth Limit 200'; Complement 4 Officers, 34 Enlisted; Armament, four 21" torpedo tubes, 12 torpedoes, one 4"/50 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel electric engines, New London Ship and Engine Co. diesel engines, 2,000 hp, Fuel Capacity, 36,950 gal.; Westinghouse Electric Co., electric motors, 1,200 hp, Battery Cells, 120, twin propellers.

Size	Image Description	Source
79k	Keel laying ceremony for the S-9 (SS-114) at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 20 January 1919. Note the polished rivetting hammers held by the officers at right.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 46546.
60k	S-9 (SS-114) photographed during the 1920s.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 46559.
48k	S-9 (SS-114) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, circa 1920's.	US Navy photo courtesy of Ric Hedmen / rddesign@rddesigns.com.
77k	S-6 (SS-111) and S-9 (SS-114) at the Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands, circa 1921-1924.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 103258. Collection of Chief Engineman Virgil Breland, USN. Donated by Mrs. E.H. Breland, 1979.
115k	The Submarine Tender Camden (AS-6) photographed circa the middle or later 1920s, with ten *S-boats* alongside. The submarines are (on *Camden's* starboard side, from left to right): S-18 (SS-123) & unidentified Electric Boat type *S-boat; S-19* (SS-124); S-12 (SS-117); and an unidentified Government type *S-boat. On Camden'sport side, from left to right: Unidentified Government type S-boat; S-7* (SS-112); S-8 (SS-113); S-9 (SS-114); and S-3 (SS-107).	Collection of Vice Admiral Dixwell Ketcham, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 100459.
275k	Starboard view of the S-9 (SS-114) underway, 4 June 1927 at Hampton Roads, Virginia during the Presidential review. She operated in the Panama Canal area from March into April, arrived at New London on 3 May, and spent the remainder of 1927 along the northeast coast.	US Navy photo # 19-N-11054, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham. Text courtesy of DANFS. Partial text courtesy of USNHC photo caption NH 41758.
40k	Dock side view at Mare Island in 1929; the Ortolan (AM-45) and five of her charges, of which only two boats are identifiable: the S-9 (SS-114) & S-15 (SS-120).	US Navy photo courtesy of Ron Reeves, HTC, USNR (ret.) Photo added 06/08/08.

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DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

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