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S-29 (SS-134)

S-29 served both the US and British Navies

S-18 Class Submarine (Holland-type): Laid down, 17 April 1919, at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy MA.; Launched, 9 November 1922; Commissioned, USS S-29 (SS-134), 22 May 1924; Decommissioned, 5 June 1942; Transferred to the United Kingdom; Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS P 556; Returned to US Naval custody, and struck from the Naval Register, 26 January 1946; Final Disposition, sold for scraping, 24 January 1947, H. G. Pound, Great Britain.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 854 t., Submerged: 1,062 t.; Length 219' 3" ; Beam 20' 8"; Draft 15' 11"(mean); Depth Limit 200'; Speed, Surfaced 14.5 kts, Submerged 11 kts; Complement, 4 Officers, 34 Enlisted; Armament, four 21" torpedo tubes, 12 torpedoes, one 4"/50 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel-electric, New London Ship & Engine diesel engines, hp 1200, Fuel Capacity, 41,192 gals.; Ridgeway Dynamo & Electric Co., electric motors, hp 1500, Battery Cells, 120, twin propellers.

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	145k	Inboard alongside pier are the S-27 (SS-132) , S-46 (SS-157) and S-29 (SS-134) at the Groton CT, Navy Yard, 2 January 1924.	US Navy photo # 19-N-10280, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
	229k	S-29 (SS-134) entering the loch heading into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, probably circa 27 April to 30 May 1925.	US Navy photo # 19-N-17207, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
	114k	Savannah (AS-8) at Portland, OR., during the 1920s. Submarines alongside are (from left to right): S-27 (SS-132), S-29 (SS-134) and S-25 (SS-130).	Photo by Peck. US Navy photo # NH 71012 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Photo donated to the US Naval Historical Center by LT. Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1970.
	966k	S-29 (SS-134) visited Hawaii in the summers of 1927, 1928, and 1930. She is seen here in June 1927.	Text courtesy of DANFS. US Navy photo # 80G-413979 courtesy of Sean Hert, Webmaster & Editor ModelWarships.com. Photo added 02/05/11.
	51k	S-29 (SS-134) circa 1930's. The crew has pulled what appears to be a buoy up on deck and are securing it.	Text & photo courtesy of Ric Hedmen / rddesign@rddesigns.com.
HMS P-566
	151k	*HMS P-566, the ex-S-29* (SS-134) after her transfer in 1942 to the Royal Navy who used her for training duties.	Photos and text from A Century of Submarines by Peter Lawrence via Robert Hurst.

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