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USS Snapper (SS-185)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Snapper.
USS Snapper (SS-185), a Salmon-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy of the name and the second to be named for the snapper.
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Name | Snapper |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 23 July 1936[1] |
Launched | 24 August 1937[1] |
Commissioned | 15 December 1937[1] |
Decommissioned | 15 November 1945[1] |
Stricken | 30 April 1948[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 18 May 1948[1] |
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Class and type | Salmon-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 308 ft 0 in (93.88 m)[3] |
Beam | 26 ft 1+1⁄4 in (7.957 m)[3] |
Draft | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m)[3] |
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Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)[3] |
Endurance | 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged[3] |
Test depth | 250 ft (76 m)[3] |
Complement | 5 officers, 54 enlisted[3] |
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