USS Searaven
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USS Searaven (SS-196), a Sargo-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea raven, a sculpin of the northern Atlantic coast of America.
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USS Searaven during trials, 13 May 1940. | |
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United States | |
Name | Searaven |
Namesake | sea raven |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 9 August 1938[1] |
Launched | 21 June 1939[1] |
Commissioned | 2 October 1939[1] |
Decommissioned | 11 December 1946[1] |
Stricken | 21 October 1948[2] |
Fate | Target for Operation Crossroads atomic bomb test,[1] then sunk as a target off southern California on 11 September 1948 |
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 7+1⁄2 in (5.067 m)[3] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced,[3] 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged[3] |
Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km; 13,000 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)[3] |
Endurance | 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged[3] |
Test depth | 250 ft (80 m)[3] |
Complement | 5 officers, 54 enlisted[3] |
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