History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Chivo |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 21 February 1944[1] |
Launched | 14 January 1945[1] |
Commissioned | 28 April 1945[1] |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1971[1] |
Stricken | 1 July 1971[2] |
Identification | SS-341 |
Fate | Transferred to Argentina, 1 July 1971[1] |
Argentina | |
Name | ARA Santiago del Estero |
Acquired | 1 July 1971 |
Decommissioned | January 1981 |
Identification | S-22 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 1983 |
General characteristics (As completed) | |
Class and type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[3] |
Endurance |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[3] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[3] |
Armament |
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General characteristics (Guppy IA) | |
Class and type | none |
Displacement | |
Length | 307 ft 7 in (93.8 m)[5] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.3 m)[5] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[5] |
Propulsion | |
Speed |
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Range | 17,000 nm (28,000 km) surfaced at 11 knots (20 km/h)[5] |
Endurance | 36 hours at 3 knots (6 km/h) submerged[5] |
Complement |
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Armament |
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USS Chivo (SS-341), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the "chivo" or big-scaled goatfish Pseudopenaeus grandisquamis, a fish inhabiting the Pacific Ocean between Panama and Mexico.
Chivo was launched 14 January 1945 by Electric Boat Company, Groton, Conn.; sponsored by Mrs. Edith Lindholm Baldwin, wife of Raymond E. Baldwin, the governor of Connecticut; and commissioned 28 April 1945.