USS S-25 (SS-130)

  • United States Navy ( USN)
  • Royal Navy ( RN )
  • Polish Navy ( PL)
  • USN: July 9, 1923
  • RN: November 4, 1940
  • PL: 1940
  • Surfaced 854 ts
  • Immersed 1062 ts
  • 2 New London Ship & Engine Diesel with 1200 hp ( 890 kW)
  • 2 electric engines with 1500 hp (1120 kW)

USS S-25 (SS -130 ) was a submarine of the United States Navy. The Holland - class boat has been adopted in the Second World War by the Royal Navy under the symbol HMS P.551 and then transferred to the Polish Navy. The Polish Navy presented the submarine under the name ORP Jastrząb in service.

Service history

USS S- 25 (1923-1941)

The boat was placed under the command of Lieutenant Commander George H. Fort in service on 26 October 1918 by Fore River Shipyard, a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel Keel-laying and on 9 July 1923.

Served as the base 1923 New London (Connecticut). S-25 took part in winter exercises in the Caribbean and the Panama Canal Zone from January to April 1924. She was then ordered to the West Coast of the U.S. where it operated until 1931, mainly off the coast of Southern California. Between March and May in 1927 and in February 1929 she returned to the coast of Panama. 1927, 1928 and 1930 went to Hawaii S-25.

On 15 April 1931, the submarine left his base San Diego, to April 25, to reach its new base at Pearl Harbor. S-25 operated from 1939 to Hawaii. On June 16, 1939 left the submarine Hawaii and drove into the Atlantic. New London was reached on August 25. Until February 1940 was followed by extensive repairs. Thereafter, the boot was used for test purposes. In December 1940, S-25 was ordered to Key West, where it was used until May 1941 as a training boat.

HMS P.551 / ORP Jastrząb ( 1941-1942 )

After another overhaul in New London, the submarine was placed on 4 November by the U.S. Navy decommissioned and taken over by the Royal Navy with the ID HMS P.551. Shortly thereafter handed over the British navy, the submarine to the Polish, which provided it with the name ORP Jastrząb under the command of kapitan marynarki Boleslaw Romanowski in service.

The submarine was on 2 May, 1942 the North Norwegian coast in position 71 ° 30 ' N, 12 ° 32' O71.512.533333333333 by the Norwegian destroyer KNM St Albans (I 15) and the British minesweeper HMS Seagull with a German U confused boot and accidentally sunk. ORP Jastrząb escorted at this time the Nordmeergeleitzug PQ -15 to Murmansk. Five Polish sailors were killed in this accident.

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