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P 553

Built By: Fore River (USA)
Build Group: US-S
Fate: Returned to USN 11 July 1944 and sunk as a target, 23 March 1945.

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Commanders
1942: Lieutenant   Leslie Frederick Lewis Hill
1943: Acting Lieutenant   Roy Edmund Youngman (RNR)

USS S-21 was decommissioned from the USN in 1942 and simultaneously transferred to United Kingdom where she was renamed HMS P553. She remained in American waters, based at Halifax, Canada, as an anti-submarine warfare training boat.

Events

 19-12-1918   Laid down
 18-08-1920   Launched
 24-08-1921   Commissioned
 14-09-1942   Transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS P553
 14-07-1944   Returned to USN
 23-03-1945   Sunk as target
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