USS Batfish (SS-310)
Batfish (SS-310), at Muskogee, Oklahoma. |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 21 April 1942 |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down: | 27 December 1942 |
| Launched: | 5 May 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 21 August 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 April 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 7 March 1952 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 November 1969 |
| Struck: | 1 November 1969 |
| Fate: | Museum ship in Muskogee, Oklahoma, 18 February 1972 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Balao class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,470 long tons (1,490 t) surfaced 2,040 long tons (2,070 t) submerged |
| Length: | 311 ft 6 in (94.95 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft: | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum |
| Propulsion: |
4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-1⁄8 9-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators |
| Speed: | 20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged 75 days on patrol |
| Test depth: | 400 ft (120 m) |
| Complement: | 10 officers, 68 enlisted |
| Armament: | 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft) 24 torpedoes 1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon |
USS Batfish (SS/AGSS-310), is a Balao-class submarine, known primarily for the remarkable feat of sinking three Imperial Japanese Navy submarines in a 76-hour period, in February 1945. USS Batfish is the first vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the batfish, a small pediculate fish resembling the stingray.
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