History | |
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United States | |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 9 September 1943[1] |
Launched | 27 January 1944[1] |
Sponsored by | Miss Ruth Roper |
Commissioned | 12 April 1944[1] |
Decommissioned | 27 June 1968[1] |
Stricken | 30 June 1968[1] |
Fate | Sunk as target 6 February 1969[2] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 6 in (94.95 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 nm (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[4] |
Endurance |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[4] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[4] |
Armament |
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USS Redfish (SS/AGSS-395), a Balao-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the redfish. In addition to her naval career, which included sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Unryū, she made several film appearances in the 1950s.