S-21 (SS-126)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Submarine
Class	S-1
Pennant	126
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	19 Nov 1918
Launched	18 Aug 1920
Commissioned	24 Aug 1921
End service	14 Sep 1942
History	Decommissioned 31 March 1922. Recommissioned 14 September 1923. Decommissioned 14 September 1942, Transferred to the Royal Navy the same day, comissioned by the British as HMS P- 553. Returned to U.S.N. custody 11 July 1944. Sunk as a target off New England 23 March 1945.
Career notes	Loaned to the Royal Navy as P 553

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt. John Archibald Bole, Jr., USN	1940	Mar 1942
2	T/Lt.Cdr. James Alvin Adkins, USN	Mar 1942	Apr 1942
3	Lt. Richard Henry Crane, USN	Apr 1942	14 Sep 1942

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