USS Sabalo (SS-302)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Sabalo.
USS Sabalo (SS-302), a Balao-class submarine, was the first submarine and second ship of the United States Navy to be named sabalo, another name for the Atlantic tarpon, a large, silvery game fish of the herring group, found in the warmer parts of the Western Atlantic.
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Sabalo (SS-302) after conversion to a "Fleet Snorkel" type, post-1952. | |
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United States | |
Name | Sabalo |
Namesake | Sabalo, alternative name for the Atlantic tarpon |
Builder | Cramp Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia[1] |
Yard number | 557 |
Laid down | 5 June 1943[1] |
Launched | 4 June 1944[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Martha C. Oman |
Commissioned | 19 June 1945[1] |
Decommissioned | 7 August 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | June 1951[1] |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1971[1] |
Stricken | 1 July 1971[1] |
Fate | Sunk as a target, 15 February 1973[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Balao class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[6] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[6] |
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