USS Seal (SS-183)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Seal.
USS Seal (SS-183), a Salmon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seal, a sea mammal valued for its skin and oil.
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USS Seal | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Seal |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 25 May 1936[1] |
Launched | 25 August 1937[1] |
Commissioned | 30 April 1938[1] |
Decommissioned | 15 November 1945[1] |
Stricken | 1 May 1956[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 6 May 1957[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Salmon-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | 1,435 long tons (1,458 t) standard, surfaced,[3] 2,198 long tons (2,233 t) submerged[3] |
Length | 308 ft 0 in (93.88 m)[3] |
Beam | 26 ft 1+1⁄4 in (7.957 m)[3] |
Draft | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m)[3] |
Propulsion | 4 × Hooven-Owens-Rentschler (H.O.R.) 9-cylinder diesel engines (two hydraulic-drive, two driving electrical generators),[2][3][4] 2 × 120-cell batteries,[3] 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors with reduction gears,[2] two shafts,[2] 5,500 shp (4.1 MW) surfaced,[2] 2,660 shp (2.0 MW) submerged[2] |
Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced,[3] 9 knots (17 km/h) submerged[3] |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) @ 10 knots (19 km/h)[3] |
Endurance | 48 hours @ 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged[3] |
Test depth | 250 ft (76 m)[3] |
Complement | 5 officers, 54 enlisted[3] |
Armament | 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, four aft; 24 torpedoes),[3] 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal deck gun,[3] four machine guns |
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