USS Spikefish

History
United States
Builder	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1]
Laid down	29 January 1944[1]
Launched	26 April 1944[1]
Commissioned	30 June 1944[1]
Decommissioned	2 April 1963[1]
Stricken	1 May 1963[1]
Fate	Sunk as a target off Long Island, 4 August 1964[2]
General characteristics
Class and type	Balao class diesel-electric submarine[2]
Displacement	1,526 tons (1,550 t) surfaced[2] 2,391 tons (2,429 t) submerged[2]
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	4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 10-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators[4][5] 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries[6] 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors with reduction gears[4] two propellers [4] 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced[4] 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged[4]
Speed	20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced[3] 8.75 kn (16 km/h) submerged[3]
Range	11,000 nmi surfaced at 10 knots (20,000 km at 19 km/h)[3]
Endurance	48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged[3] 75 days on patrol
Test depth	400 ft (120 m)[3]
Complement	10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[3]
Armament	10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 forward, 4 aft 24 torpedoes[6] 1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun[6] Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

USS Spikefish (SS/AGSS-404), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy, named for the spikefish. She was the first United States submarine to record 10,000 dives.^{[citation needed]}