USS Charr (SS-328)

USS Charr (SS-328)


Career
Builder: Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
Laid down: 26 August 1943
Launched: 28 May 1944
Commissioned: 23 September 1944
Decommissioned: 28 June 1969
Struck: 20 December 1971
Fate: Sold for scrap, 17 August 1972
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
2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears
two propellers
5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced

2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
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 Charr (SS/AGSS-328), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the charr, a trout of the waters of northwestern North America.

SS-328, originally designated Bocaccio, was renamed Charr on 24 September 1942 and launched 28 May 1944 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.; sponsored by Mrs. W. F. Orkney; and commissioned 23 September 1944, Commander F. D. Boyle in command.

Read more about USS Charr (SS-328):  First War Patrol, December 1944 – March 1945, Second War Patrol, March – May 1945, Third War Patrol, June – July 1945, Post-war Service, Honors and Awards