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{{short description|Submarine of the United States}}

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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag= {{USN flag|1945}}
|Ship name= USS ''S-12''
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|Ship builder= [[Portsmouth Naval Shipyard|Portsmouth Navy Yard]]
|Ship laid down= 8 January 1920
|Ship launched= 4 August 1921
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|Ship commissioned= 30 April 1923
|Ship decommissioned= 30 September 1936 
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|Ship recommissioned= 4 November 1940
|Ship decommissioned= 18 May 1945 
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|Ship fate= Sold for scrap 28 October 1945
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|Ship class= [[United States S class submarine|S-class]] [[submarine]]
|Ship displacement=*{{convert|876|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} surfaced
*{{convert|1092|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} submerged
|Ship length= {{convert|231|ft|m|abbr=on}} 
|Ship beam= {{convert|21|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}} 
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|Ship complement=42 officers and men
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|Ship armament=*1 × [[4"/50 caliber gun|{{convert|4|in|mm|abbr=on}}]]/50 [[deck gun]]
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'''USS ''S-12'' (SS-117)''' was a second-group (''S-3'' or "Government") [[United States S class submarine|''S''-class submarine]] of the [[United States Navy]].  Her keel was laid down on 8 January 1920 by the [[Portsmouth Navy Yard]].  She was [[ship naming and launching|launched]] on 4 August 1921 sponsored by Mrs. Gordon Woodbury and [[ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 30 April 1923 with Lieutenant [[Francis S. Low]] in command.

Following duty along the northeast coast in 1923 and a visit to [[Guantánamo Bay, Cuba|Guantanamo]], [[Cuba]], from 19 April to 24 April 1924, ''S-12'' resumed duty in [[New England]] waters. Sailing from [[New London, Connecticut]], on 15 November 1924, via the [[Panama Canal]] and [[California]], she visited [[Hawaii]] from 24 April to 25 May 1925, before returning to New London on 12 July. In addition to service in the northeast through 1928, ''S-12'' operated in the Panama Canal area from January through April 1926; visited [[Kingston, Jamaica]], from 20 March to 28 March 1927; and served again in the Panama Canal area from February into April 1928. From 1929 into 1936, ''S-12'' served almost exclusively in the Panama Canal area although she visited [[Baltimore, Maryland]], from 15 May to 5 June 1933, and New London from 15 May to 1 June 1935. Departing [[Coco Solo]] on 13 June 1936, ''S-12'' decommissioned at [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], on 30 September 1936.

''S-12'' was recommissioned on 4 November 1940. Following voyages to [[Bermuda]], [[Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands]], and Coco Solo, ''S-12'' operated at St. Thomas from December 1941 into March 1942; in the Panama Canal area from April into June; at Guantánamo from June into December; in the Panama Canal area from that month into May 1944; at [[Trinidad]] from May into July; and at Guantánamo from July into 1945. Departing from Guantánamo on 25 March, ''S-12'' was decommissioned on 18 May 1945 at Philadelphia, and was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register]]. She was sold on 28 October that year to [[Rosoff Brothers]] of [[New York City]]. Resold to [[Northern Metals]] Company of Philadelphia, on an unspecified date, she was scrapped.

== References ==
{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/s-12.html}}

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