HMS P556

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Career
Builder:	Bethlehem Steel
Laid down:	April 17, 1919
Launched:	November 9, 1922
Commissioned:	June 5, 1942
Decommissioned:	January 24, 1947
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Displacement:	Surface 640 tons, Dived 935 tons
Length:	202 ft 6 in
Beam:	24 ft
Draught:	10 ft 6 in
Speed:	13.75 knots (25.5 km/h) surfaced, 10nbsp;knots submerged
Complement:	36 officers and crew
Armament:	six forward 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, twelve torpedoes, one three-inch (76 mm) gun; one .303-calibre machine guns

HMS P556 (pennant number P556) was a S1-class submarine of the British Royal Navy. Formerly known as USS S-29.

USS S-29 was transferred to the Royal Navy at New London on 5 June 1942. She arrived at Gibraltar, via Bermuda, in August 1942 to refit, nominally as part of 8th Flotilla. She moved to Plymouth in February 1943, for anti-submarine training role. In November 1943, she moved to Portsmouth for service in the same role.

HMS P556 was damaged by a battery explosion on 27 January 1944, and was decommissioned into reserve in April. She was returned to the United States Navy on 26 January 1945. Sold for scrap to Messrs Pounds, Portsmouth on 24 January 1947.

[edit] External links

• P552 to P714. British Submarines of World War II. Retrieved on 2006-07-23.

• S-29 (SS-134). Allied Warships. uboat.net. Retrieved on 2006-07-23.

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