USS S-43 (SS-154)
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USS S-43 at San Diego, California, with aircraft carrier USS Langley (CV-1) in the background, sometime between 1924 and 1936.
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| Name: | USS S-43 |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 13 December 1920 |
| Launched: | 31 March 1923 |
| Commissioned: | 31 December 1924 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 October 1945 |
| Struck: | 13 November 1945 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1946 |
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| Class and type: | S-class submarine |
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| Length: | 225 ft 3 in (68.66 m) |
| Beam: | 20 ft 8 in (6.30 m) |
| Draft: | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
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| Complement: | 42 officers and men |
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| Operations: | World War II |
USS S-43 (SS-154) was a third-group (S-42) S-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 13 December 1920 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 31 March 1923 sponsored by Mrs. John H. Brown, and commissioned on 31 December 1924 with Lieutenant C. E. Braine, Jr., in command.
Initially assigned to Submarine Division (SubDiv) 19 and then to SubDiv 11, S-43 completed trials off the Connecticut coast and, in April 1925, moved south to Guantanamo Bay. Thence, she proceeded to the Submarine Base, Coco Solo in the Panama Canal Zone, where she was based for the next two years. Engaged in exercises—individual, division, and fleet—during that period, she was transferred with her division to the Battle Force in July 1927 and based at San Diego, California. From there, she continued her schedule of exercises and fleet problems into the 1930s. Annual overhauls and exercises off southern California were followed by summer operations in Hawaiian waters and autumn patrols and exercises off Mexico.
December 1930, however, brought changes to her schedule. Then reassigned to Pearl Harbor, she operated almost exclusively in the Hawaiian area until 1941. Exceptions to these operations came with fleet problem deployment and inactive periods during her years, 1932 to 1935, in the rotating reserve.
In June 1941, the boats of SubDiv 11 were ordered to New London, Connecticut. There, the division was redesignated SubDiv 53, and the old S-boats were ordered, in groups, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for overhaul and alterations to increase their reliability in case of war.
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