Submarine of the United States
History
United States
Builder Portsmouth Naval Shipyard , Kittery, Maine [ 1]
Laid down 2 April 1940[ 1]
Launched 29 November 1940[ 1]
Commissioned 1 May 1941[ 1]
Honors and awards 4 × battle stars
Fate Scuttled off Phuket , 22 April 1943, after being damaged by Japanese aircraft[ 2]
General characteristics
Class and type Tambor class diesel-electric submarine [ 2]
Displacement
1,475 long tons (1,499 t ) standard, surfaced[ 3]
2,370 long tons (2,410 t) submerged[ 3]
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]
Propulsion
Speed
20.4 knots (38 km/h) surfaced[ 3]
8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged[ 3]
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]
Armament
USS Grenadier (SS-210) , a Tambor -class submarine , was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grenadier fish , relatives of cod that are very common in bathyal and abyssal habitats.
^ a b c d Friedman, Norman (1995). U.S. Submarines Through 1945: An Illustrated Design History . Annapolis, Maryland : United States Naval Institute . pp. 285–304. ISBN 1-55750-263-3 .
^ a b Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants . Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press. p. 270. ISBN 0-313-26202-0 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
^ a b c d e Bauer, K. Jack ; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants . Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press. pp. 270–280. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9 .
^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 261–263
^ a b c U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311