USS Spikefish
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USS Spikefish (SS/AGSS-404), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy, named for the spikefish. She was the first United States submarine to record 10,000 dives.[citation needed]
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Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 29 January 1944[1] |
Launched | 26 April 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 30 June 1944[1] |
Decommissioned | 2 April 1963[1] |
Stricken | 1 May 1963[1] |
Fate | Sunk as a target off Long Island, 4 August 1964[2] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Balao class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 6 in (94.95 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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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[6] |
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