USS Cavalla (SS-244)
| Career | |
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| Builder: | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down: | 4 March 1943 |
| Launched: | 14 November 1943 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. M. Comstock |
| Commissioned: | 29 February 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 March 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 10 April 1951 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 September 1952 |
| Recommissioned: | 15 July 1953 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 June 1968 |
| Struck: | 30 December 1969 |
| Fate: | Museum ship at Galveston, Texas as of 21 January 1971 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,525 long tons (1,549 t) surfaced 2,424 long tons (2,463 t) submerged |
| Length: | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft (5.2 m) maximum |
| Propulsion: |
4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators |
| Speed: | 21 kn (39 km/h) surfaced 9 kn (17 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 48 hours at 2 kn (4 km/h) submerged 75 days on patrol |
| Test depth: | 300 ft (90 m) |
| Complement: | 6 officers, 54 enlisted |
| Armament: | 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft) 24 torpedoes 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| Location: | Galveston, TX |
| Built: | 1943 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 08000477 |
| Added to NRHP: | 27 May 2008 |
USS Cavalla (SS/SSK/AGSS-244), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for a salt water fish, best known for sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Shōkaku, a veteran of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Cavalla was laid down on 4 March 1943 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 14 November 1943 (sponsored by Mrs. M. Comstock), and commissioned on 29 February 1944, Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Herman J. Kossler, USN, (Class of 1934) in command.
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