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USS Tambor
Submarine of the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Tambor (SS-198), the lead ship of her class of submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tambor.
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Name | USS Tambor |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 16 January 1939[1] |
Launched | 20 December 1939[1] |
Commissioned | 3 June 1940[1] |
Decommissioned | 10 December 1945[1] |
Stricken | 1 September 1959[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 5 December 1959[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tambor-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 307 ft 2 in (93.62 m)[3] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[3] |
Draft | 14 ft 7+1⁄2 in (4.458 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 | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[3] |
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