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[edit] Possible errors and contradictions in this article

1) "The United States Navy commissioned 48 S-Class submarines between 1920 and 1922." S-1 through S-51 were all commissioned. Also, S-42 through S-47 were not even launched till 1923-24.

2) "S-48 through S-51, built by Bethlehem Quincy." These boats were built by Lake at Bridgeport.

3) "Group II (S-2 class, or "Lake" boats): S-2 through S-17..." S-2 was a prototype, substantially different from S-3 through S-17. (24 feet shorter, 3 feet 3 inches more draft, 75 tons lighter, smaller engine; all differences of 9% or more). S-3 was the BuCR design, built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, as were S-4 through S-13. S-14 through S-17 were built by Lake to the BuCR design. I have created a separated characteristics section for S-2.

4) "Group I (S-1 class, or "Holland" boats)..." Holland was dead for several years; these were "Elco type".

5) Group I had 2 x 600 HP engines, not 2 x 1200 HP engines. The engine company was Busch-Sulzer, not Sultzer.

6) 900 hp = 670 kW, not 670 W.

I am incorporating these corrections to the article.

Also, "The S class is subdivided into four groups of slightly different designs." Slightly? Group I had a draft of 16 ft. Group IV had a draft of 11 ft and was 55 feet longer.

Style tweaks - it isn't necessary to footnote every data item in a description to the same source page. Added a lot of convert templates.

--Rich Rostrom (Talk) 19:27, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

(signature added - I was logged out for time.)

--24.148.0.125 (talk) 19:24, 1 April 2008 (UTC)