USS Lapon (SS-260)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Lapon.
USS Lapon (SS-260), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after the lapon, a scorpionfish of the Pacific coast of the United States.
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United States | |
Name | USS Lapon |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 21 February 1942[1] |
Launched | 27 October 1942[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Jesse B. Oldendorf |
Commissioned | 23 January 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | 25 July 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 13 April 1957[1] |
Decommissioned | 10 August 1957[1] |
Stricken | 31 December 1975[2] |
Identification | SS-260 |
Fate | Transferred to Greece, 10 August 1957[2] |
Greece | |
Name | Poseidon |
Acquired | 10 August 1957 |
Stricken | April 1976 |
Identification | S-78 |
Fate | Purchased outright in April 1976 and cannibalized for spare parts |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gato-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 | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[5] |
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Test depth | 300 ft (90 m)[5] |
Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[5] |
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