USS Quillback
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USS Quillback (SS-424), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for quillback, a fish of the sucker family, widespread in the freshwaters of North America and Northern Asia.
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United States | |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 27 June 1944[1] |
Launched | 1 October 1944[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. J. A. Tyree, Jr. |
Commissioned | 29 December 1944[1] |
Decommissioned | April 1952[1] |
Recommissioned | 27 February 1953[1] |
Decommissioned | 23 March 1973[1] |
Stricken | 23 March 1973[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 21 March 1974[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tench-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)[2] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) maximum[2] |
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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, 71 enlisted[6] |
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General characteristics (Guppy II) | |
Displacement | |
Length | 307 ft (93.6 m)[8] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (7.4 m)[8] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[8] |
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Range | 15,000 nm (28,000 km) surfaced at 11 knots (20 km/h)[8] |
Endurance | 48 hours at 4 knots (7 km/h) submerged[8] |
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