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USS Spearfish
Submarine of the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Spearfish (SS-190), a Sargo-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the spearfish, any of several large, powerful, pelagic fishes of the genus Tetrapturus allied to the marlins and sailfishes.
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Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 9 September 1937[1] |
Launched | 29 October 1938[1] |
Commissioned | 19 July 1939[1] |
Decommissioned | 22 June 1946[1] |
Stricken | 19 July 1946[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 19 May 1947[1] |
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Class and type | Sargo-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 310 ft 6 in (94.64 m)[3] |
Beam | 26 ft 10 in (8.18 m)[3] |
Draft | 16 ft 7+1⁄2 in (5.067 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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