USS S-32 (SS-137) was an S-class submarine of the United States Navy. Construction and commissioning S-32 was laid down on 12 April 1918 by the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California. She was launched on 11 January 1919, sponsored by Miss Margaret Tynan, and commissioned on 15 June 1922. Service history 1922–1941 Soon after commissioning, S-32, assigned to Submarine Division 17 and home-ported at San Pedro, California, was ordered to New London, Connecticut. She was decommissioned there on 25 September 1922 and, after engineering alterations by the prime contractor, the Electric Boat Company, and the engineering sub-contractor, the New London Ship and Engine Company, she was recommissioned on 21 February 1923. Temporary duty with Submarine Division 11 then took her south to the Caribbean Sea and the Panama Canal Zone for 1923 winter exercises with the Fleet, after which she rejoined the S-boats of her division, now designated Submarine Division 16, and returned to San Pedro. During the summer of 1923, she participated in cold-weather exercises in the Aleutian Islands. In the fall of 1923, she resumed local operations off Southern California, and during the winter of 1923–1924 she returned to the Panama Canal Zone. In April 1924, she moved back to San Pedro, from which she operated until 1925. Early in 1925, her division was transferred to the United States Asiatic Fleet in the Philippines, and its submarines shifted to Mare Island, California, to prepare for the trans-Pacific crossing. On 15 April 1925, S-32 departed San Francisco for the Philippines. She arrived at Cavite on Luzon in mid-summer 1925 and through the winter of 1926 conducted local exercises in the Luzon area. In the spring of 1926 she deployed to the coast of China, conducting exercises both en route to and from her summer base, the former Imperial German Navy base at Tsingtao. Overhaul followed her September 1926 return to the Philippines. She repeated this annual employment schedule for the next six years. In 1932, Submarine Division 16 was transferred to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. S-32 departed Manila Bay on 2 May 1932 and, at arrived at Pearl Harbor at the end of May 1932. Pearl Harbor was her home port for the next five years. In June 1937, S032 departed Pearl Harbor for the United States East Coast. In August 1937, she reported for inactivation at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and on 7 December 1937 she was decommissioned and berthed