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S-17 (SS-122)

Radio Call Sign: November - India - November - Delta

S-3 Class Submarine (Government-type): Laid down, 19 March 1918, at Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, CT.; Launched, 22 May 1920; Commissioned, USS S-17 (SS-122), 1 March 1921; Decommissioned, 29 March 1935, at Philadelphia, PA.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 16 December 1940; Decommissioned, 4 October 1944; Struck from the Naval Register, 13 November 1944; Final Disposition, intentionally sunk, 5 April 1945.

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, five 21" torpedo tubes, 14 torpedoes, one 4"/50 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel electric engines, Maschinfabrik - Augsburg - Nurnburg, New York Navy Yard 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
48k	S-17 (SS-122), probably at Vladavostok, Russia, although photo is labeld Cavite, PI, circa 1921.	Courtesy of Vance Adams.
62k	*S boats* at the Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines, in 1923-1924. These submarines are (from left to right): S-17 (SS-122): S-4 (SS-109): S-15 (SS-120); and S-14 (SS-119).	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 90306. Courtesy of Captain A.L. Prosser, USN (Retired), 1979.
152k	S-14 (SS-119) & S-17 (SS-122) morred together September 23, 1927 at Mare Island, California.	US Navy photo # 19-N-11553, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
159k	Starboard side view of S-14 (SS-119) left and S-17 (SS-122) right at Mare Island Navy Yard on 23 Sep 1927.	US Navy photo courtesy of Darryl Baker.
144k	Portside bow view of the S-14 (SS-119) in Dry Dock #1 at Mare Island, California, January 13, 1928. The destroyer Zeilin (DD-313) is outboard of the *S-14* and to the left of S-17 (SS-122). The three ships entered dry dock #1 at Mare Island on 15 Dec 1927 and were undocked on 13 Jan 1928. *YD-33* (150 tons) is in the background. Dates from yard docking records and official logs.	US Navy photo # 19-N-11544, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
115k	S-17 (SS-122), is shown in December 1942 after a refit. She has been fitted with SD air-search radar (arrowed, on top of the conning tower). She was one of the four boats S-14-17 (SS-119-122), re-engined in 1925 with MAN diesels. A drain (equivalent to E.B.'s duct keel) installed in her box keel was connected to the large low-pressure ballast pump shown aft (arrow). Kingstons were installed amidships, under the control room & two remotely controlled Kingstons were fitted to No. 1 Main Ballast Tank, one connected to the drain and a larger one communicating directly with the sea. The object atop the chariot bridge are a venturi to limit wind, and the ship's whistle with the navigator's chair inboard. The inclined tube rising just abaft the gun breech is an ammunition scuttle. Batteries are shaded, for clarity.	Drawing by Jim Christley. Text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Through 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. Naval Institute Press.
25k	The S-17 (SS-122) appears here off of New London. She operated there from September 1943 into July 1944.	US Navy photo courtesy of Hyperwar US Navy in WWII web site. Text contributed from "U S Warships of World War II" by P. Silverstone courtesy of Aryeh Wetherhorn.
177k	Port side view of the S-17 (SS-122) underway, July 1944, off of New London.	US Navy photo courtesy of ussubvetsofwwii.org. Text contributed from "U S Warships of World War II" by P. Silverstone courtesy of Aryeh Wetherhorn.

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