USS Crevalle
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USS Crevalle (SS/AGSS-291), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the crevalle, the yellow mackerel, a food fish, found on both coasts of tropical America, and in the Atlantic as far north as Cape Cod.[7]
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United States | |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 14 November 1942[1] |
Launched | 22 February 1943[1] |
Commissioned | 24 June 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | 29 July 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 6 September 1951[1] |
Decommissioned | 19 August 1955[1] |
Recommissioned | 11 April 1957[1] |
Decommissioned | 9 March 1962[1] |
Stricken | 15 April 1968[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 17 March 1971[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Balao 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 | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[6] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[6] |
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