USS Scamp (SS-277)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Scamp.
USS Scamp (SS-277), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the scamp grouper, a member of the family Serranidae.
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Name | USS Scamp (SS-277) |
Namesake | Scamp grouper |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 6 March 1942[1] |
Launched | 20 July 1942[1] |
Sponsored by | Miss Katherine Eugenia McKee |
Commissioned | 18 September 1942[1] |
Fate | Probably sunk 11 November 1944[2] |
Stricken | 28 April 1945 |
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Class and type | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum[2] |
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Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[6] |
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Test depth | 300 ft (90 m)[6] |
Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[6] |
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