Allied Warships

S-37 (SS-142)

Submarine of the S-1 class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Submarine
Class	S-1
Pennant	142
Built by	Union Iron Works (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	12 Dec 1918
Launched	20 Jun 1919
Commissioned	16 Jul 1923
End service	6 Feb 1945
History	Decommissioned 6 February 1945. Stricken 23 February 1945. sunk as a target off Imperial Beach, California 20 February 1945 .

Commands listed for USS S-37 (142)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt. Thomas Lawrence Greene, USN	17 Jul 1937	22 Jun 1940
2	Lt. Walter Gale Ebert, USN	22 Jun 1940	11 Aug 1941
3	Lt. James Charles Dempsey, USN	11 Aug 1941	26 Feb 1942
4	Lt. James Richard Zinck Reynolds, USN	26 Feb 1942	Jul 1942
5	Lt. Thomas Slack Baskett, USN	Jul 1942	Feb 1944
6	Robert Calderwood Huston, USNR	Feb 1944	Dec 1944
7	Quintin R. Thompson, USN	Dec 1944	6 Feb 1945

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Notable events involving S-37 include:

9 Dec 1941
USS S-37 (Lt. J.C. Dempsey) departed from Manila Bay for her 1st war patrol. She was ordered to patrol in the Verde Island Passage.

19 Dec 1941
USS S-37 (Lt. J.C. Dempsey) returns to Manila Bay to refuel and restore. She departed from for her 2nd war patrol the same day. Initially she was ordered to patrol the Calavite Passage.

2 Jan 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. J.C. Dempsey) patrols in the Basilan Strait.

4 Jan 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. J.C. Dempsey) patrols off Jolo Island.

12 Jan 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. J.C. Dempsey) patrols off Tarakan, Netherlands East Indies.

15 Jan 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. J.C. Dempsey) was ordered to leave the Tarakan area and proceed to Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies.

23 Jan 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. J.C. Dempsey) ended her 2nd war patrol at Surabaya.

2 Feb 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. J.C. Dempsey) departed from Surabaya for her 3rd war patrol. She was ordered to patrol in Makassar Strait.

8 Feb 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. J.C. Dempsey) torpedoed and sank the Japanese destroyer Natsushio (offsite link) about 22 nautical miles south of Makassar, Celebes in position 05°10'S, 119°24'E.

18 Feb 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. J.C. Dempsey) patrols off Lombok Strait.

21 Feb 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. J.C. Dempsey) ended her 3rd war patrol at Surabaya.

27 Feb 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. J.R. Reynolds) departed from Surabaya for her 4th war patrol. She was ordered to patrol in the Java Sea.

22 Jun 1942
With her overhaul completed USS S-37 (Lt. J.R. Reynolds) departed from Brisbane for her 5th war patrol. She was ordered to patrol off the Bismarck Archipelago.

8 Jul 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. J.R. Reynolds) torpedoed and sank the Japanese transport Tenzan Maru (2775 GRT) about 30 nautical miles west-north-west of Rabaul in position 04°00'S, 151°50'E. S-37 is depth charged by the Japanese submarine chaser Ch-30 but she is able to escape undamaged.

21 Jul 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. J.R. Reynolds) ended her 5th war patrol at Brisbane.

17 Aug 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. T.S. Baskett) departed from Brisbane for her 6th war patrol. She was ordered to patrol off Guadalcanal.

13 Sep 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. T.S. Baskett) ended her 6th war patrol at Brisbane.

19 Oct 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. T.S. Baskett) departed from Brisbane for her 7th (and final) war patrol. She was ordered to proceed to Noumea to make a defensive patrol in that area.

5 Nov 1942
USS S-37 (Lt. T.S. Baskett) departed from her patrol area bound for Pearl Harbor. After an overhaul at San Diego she is assigned to training duties.