USS Baya (SS-318)
USS Baya (AGSS-318), post-conversion in 1962. |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down: | 8 April 1943 |
| Launched: | 2 January 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 20 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 May 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 10 February 1948 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 October 1972 |
| Struck: | 30 October 1972 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 12 October 1973 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Balao class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,526 tons (1,550 t) surfaced 2,424 tons (2,463 t) submerged |
| Length: | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft: | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum |
| Propulsion: |
4 × General Motors Model 16-278A V16 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, 70–71 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 Baya (SS/AGSS-318), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the baya, a serranoid food-fish.
Baya was launched on 2 January 1944 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.; sponsored by Mrs. C. C. Kirkpatrick, wife of Lieutenant Commander Kirkpatrick; and commissioned on 20 May 1944, Commander A. H. Holtz in command.
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