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S-19 (SS-124)

S-18 Class Submarine (Holland-type): Laid down, 15 August 1918, at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy MA.; Launched, 21 June 1920; Commissioned, USS S-19 (SS-124), 24 August 1921; Decommissioned: 8 March 1922; Recommissioned 6 January 1923; Decommissioned, 10 February 1934, at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, TH; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Naval Register, 18 December 1938; Final Disposition, sunk as a target off Pearl Harbor, 18 December 1938.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 854 t., Submerged: 1062 t.; Length 219' 3" ; Beam 20' 8"; Draft 15' 11"(mean); Speed, Surfaced 14.5 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. New London Ship and Engine Co, diesel engines, 1200 hp; Fuel Capacity, 41,921 gal.; Ridgeway Dynamo and Electric Co. electric motors, 1500 hp, Battery Cells 120, twin propellers.
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S-19 100k S-19 (SS-124) tied up along the dock at Groton, CT., 2 October 1922.
US Navy photo # 19-N-8916, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
S-19 297k Off to the races as S-19 (SS-124) sails along with a three masted bark in this post 1925 photo. Photo courtesy of Dorothy Deina Porter. Photo i.d. courtesy of Chuck Haberlein & Gary Priolo.
S-boats 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.
S-19 75k S-19 (SS-124) underway with other S-boats during the Presidential review somewhere in the Atlantic ocean, 4 June 1927.
 		US Navy photo # 19-N-11212, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
S-19 78k S-19 (SS-124) underway with other S-boats, S-21 (SS-126), S-23 (SS-128), during the Presidential review somewhere in the Atlantic ocean, 4 June 1927. US Navy photo # 19-N-11053, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
S-19 61k Starboard view of the S-19 (SS-124) sailing along the Thames river in New London, CT., circa 1923-30. US Navy photo # 19-N-12152, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
S-19 38k Conning tower of the S-19 (SS-124) encrusted in North Atlantic ice, circa 1923-30. US Navy photo # 19-N-8358, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
S-19 59k Portside view of the S-19 (SS-124) sailing along the Thames river in New London, CT., circa 1923-30. US Navy photo # 19-N-9123, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
S-19 68k Dressed in whites, the crew of the S-19 (SS-124) man the rails as she sails along the Thames river in New London, CT., circa 1923-30. US Navy photo # 19-N-9117, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
S-19 60k Dressed in whites, the crew of the S-19 (SS-124) man the rails as she sails along the Thames river in New London, CT., circa 1923-30. US Navy photo # 19-N-9122, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
S-19 112k Starboard view of the S-19 (SS-124) underway in the Panama Canal area, circa 1923-30. US Navy photo courtesy of ussubvetsofwwii.org.
O-258k Jason (AC-12) at Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, circa 1924. Several submarines are in the foreground, including (from left to right):
S-19 (SS-124);
O-9 (SS-70);
R-26 (SS-103) -- probably--; and
O-2 (SS-63). 		U.S. Navy photo # NH 102780, courtesy of USNHC. Courtesy of Chief Boatswain's Mate George Behrens, USN (Retired), 1974.
refleting 140k S-boats top and bottom as in a refleting pool, probably at Pearl Harbor when they operated with Division 7, circa 1931-33. S-21 (SS-126), S-22 (SS-127), S-23 (SS-128) & what was thought to be S-24 (SS-129).
On 25 April 1931, S-22 & S-23 arrived together at Pearl Harbor.
If you look closely at the outboard one (on the far left) the fairings that cover the bow plane pivots are rounded. On the other boats in this photo these fairings are angular in shape. The angular fairings are a distinctive characteristic of the Quincy built 20 series S-boats (S-18) to (29). For the Union Iron Works built boats (S-30) to (41) this fairing is rounded and smaller in size. The only exception to this rule is the (S-19). She alone amongst the Quincy boats had the rounded fairings of the UIW boats (why I don’t know yet). Therefore, the outboard boat in this photo can not be the (S-24). It has to be (S-19) or (30) to (41). 		Text & photo i.d. courtesy of David Johnston (USNR).
US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
Photo added 08/06/10.
S-19 28k Remains of the wreck of the S-19 (SS-124) off the coast of Hawaii, 2005. Photo courtesy of soest.hawaii.edu.
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