&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Darter;227launch.jpg) Darter (SS-227), "Down the Ways," 6 June 1943.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Darter |
| Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
| Laid down | 20 October 1942[1] |
| Launched | 6 June 1943[1] |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. E. B. Wheeler |
| Commissioned | 7 September 1943[1] |
| Fate | Grounded in the Palawan Passage and scuttled on 24 October 1944[2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
| Displacement | 1,525 long tons (1,549 t) surfaced,[2] 2,424 long tons (2,463 t) submerged[2] |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) maximum[2] |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 21 kn (24 mph; 39 km/h) surfaced,[3] 9 kn (10 mph; 17 km/h) submerged[3] |
| Range | 11,000 nmi (13,000 mi; 20,000 km) surfaced @ 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) [3] |
| Endurance | 48 hours @ 2 kn (2.3 mph; 3.7 km/h) submerged,[3] 75 days on patrol |
| Test depth | 300 ft (91 m) [3] |
| Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[3] |
| Armament |
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USS Darter (SS-227), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the darter.
- ^ 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 c d e f g Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 271–273. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
- ^ a b c d e f 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. OCLC 24010356.
- ^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 p. 261
- ^ a b c U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311