P 552
| Built By: | Fore River (USA) |
| Build Group: | US-S1 |
| Fate: | Suffered a collision in Durban harbour and declared unseaworthy, January 1944, nominally returned to the United States and sold for scrap locally. |
Commanders
| 1942: | Lieutenant Anthony Robert Daniell DSC |
USS S-1 was decommissioned from the USN in 1942 and simultaneously transferred to United Kingdom where she was renamed HMS P552.
Served the Royal Navy as a training vessel for anti-submarine warfare. In poor condition after arriving in Durban, Natal, South Africa, she was often in repair and she was declared unseaworthy in January 1944.
Events
| 11-12-1917 | Laid down |
| 26-10-1918 | Launched |
| 05-05-1920 | Commissioned |
| 20-10-1937 | Decommissioned |
| 16-10-1940 | Recommissioned |
| 20-04-1942 | Transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS P552 |
| 01-05-1942 | Picked up 3 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Taborfjell that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by German U-boat U-576 about 95 nautical miles east of Cape Cod. |
| 19-10-1944 | Returned to the USN at Durban where she was stripped of vital parts and machinery. |
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