USS Stickleback
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USS Stickleback (SS-415), a Balao-class submarine, was named for the stickleback, a small scaleless fish.
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USS Stickleback (SS-415), after GUPPY conversion | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Stickleback |
Builder | Mare Island Naval Shipyard[1] |
Laid down | 1 March 1944[1] |
Launched | 1 January 1945[1] |
Commissioned | 29 March 1945[1] |
Decommissioned | 26 June 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 6 September 1951[1] |
Decommissioned | 14 November 1952[1] |
Recommissioned | 26 June 1953[1] |
Identification | SS-415 |
Fate | Sunk in collision with USS Silverstein off Oahu 29 May 1958[2] |
General characteristics (World War II) | |
Class and type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 10 in (95.05 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) [2] |
Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[5] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[5] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[5] |
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General characteristics (Guppy IIA) | |
Class and type | none |
Displacement | |
Length | 307 ft (94 m) [7] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) [7] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) [7] |
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