USS Seadragon (SS-194)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Seadragon.
USS Seadragon (SS-194), a Sargo-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the leafy seadragon.
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United States | |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 18 April 1938[1] |
Launched | 21 April 1939[1] |
Commissioned | 23 October 1939[1] |
Decommissioned | 15 November 1945[1] |
Recommissioned | 8 February 1946[1] |
Decommissioned | 29 October 1946[1] |
Stricken | 30 April 1948[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 2 July 1948[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sargo-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 310 ft 6 in (94.64 m)[3] |
Beam | 26 ft 10 in (8.18 m)[3] |
Draft | 16 ft 8 in (5.08 m)[3] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)[3] |
Endurance | 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged[3] |
Test depth | 250 ft (76 m)[3] |
Complement | 5 officers, 54 enlisted[3] |
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