USS Becuna (SS-319)
USS Becuna |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 10 April 1942 |
| Builder: | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down: | 29 April 1943 |
| Launched: | 30 January 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 27 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 November 1969 |
| Struck: | 15 August 1973 |
| Status: | Museum ship at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 June 1976 |
| General characteristics (As completed) | |
| Class & type: | Balao class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,500 long tons (1,500 t) surfaced 2,080 long tons (2,110 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, 72 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 |
| General characteristics (Guppy IA) | |
| Displacement: | 1,830 tons (1,859 t) surfaced 2,440 tons (2,479 t) submerged |
| Length: | 307 ft 7 in (93.75 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Snorkel added |
| Speed: | Surfaced:17.3 knots (32.0 km/h) maximum 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h) cruising Submerged: 15.0 knots (27.8 km/h) for 1⁄2 hour 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h) snorkeling 3.0 knots (5.6 km/h) cruising |
| Range: | 17,000 nmi (31,000 km; 20,000 mi) surfaced at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Endurance: | 36 hours at 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) submerged |
| Complement: | 10 officers 5 petty officers 64–69 enlisted men |
| Armament: | 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 forward, 4 aft) all guns removed |
| USS Becuna (SS-319) | |
| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| U.S. National Historic Landmark | |
| Location: | Penn's Landing, Delaware Ave. & Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Area: | less than one acre |
| Built: | 1944 |
| Built by: | Electric Boat Co. |
| Architectural style: | Other, Balao class submarine |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 78002458 |
| Added to NRHP: | 29 August 1978 |
USS Becuna (SS/AGSS-319), a Balao-class submarine, is a former ship of the United States Navy named for the becuna, a pike-like fish of Europe.
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