USS Perch (SS-176)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Perch.
USS Perch (SS-176) - a Porpoise-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the perch.
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Builder | General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 25 February 1935[1] |
Launched | 9 May 1936[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Thomas Withers |
Commissioned | 19 November 1936[1] |
Stricken | 24 June 1942 |
Fate | Scuttled in the Java Sea on 3 March 1942 after being damaged by Japanese destroyers;[2] wreck illegally scrapped. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Porpoise-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | 1,350 long tons (1,372 t) standard, surfaced,[3] 1,997 long tons (2,029 t) submerged[3] |
Length | 298 ft (91 m) (waterline),[4] 300 ft 6 in (91.59 m) (overall)[5] |
Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m)[3] |
Draft | 15 ft (4.6 m)[3] |
Propulsion | 4 × Winton Model 16-201A 16-cylinder two-cycle[6] diesel engines, 1,300 hp (0.97 MW) each,[7] driving electrical generators through reduction gears,[2][8] 2 × 120-cell Gould AMTX33HB batteries,[9] 8 × General Electric electric motors, 538 hp (401 kW) each,[9] 2 × General Motors six-cylinder four-cycle 6-241 auxiliary diesels[7] |
Speed | 19.25 kn (35.65 km/h) surfaced,[3] 8.75 kn (16.21 km/h) submerged[3] |
Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) @ 10 kn (19 km/h),[3] (bunkerage 92,801 US gal (351,290 L))[10] |
Endurance | 10 hours @ 5 kn (9.3 km/h), 36 hours @ minimum speed submerged[3] |
Test depth | 250 ft (76 m)[3] |
Complement | |
Armament | 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, two aft; 16 torpedoes),[3] 1 × 4 in (100 mm)/50 caliber deck gun,[5] 4 × 0.3 cal (7.62 mm) machineguns (2x2)[5] |
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