Launch of USS Finback
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History | |
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United States | |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 5 February 1941[1] |
Launched | 25 August 1941[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. A. E Watson |
Commissioned | 31 January 1942[1] |
Decommissioned | 21 April 1950[1] |
Stricken | 1 September 1958[1] |
Honors and awards | 13 × battle stars |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 15 July 1959[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gato-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 | 17 ft (5.2 m) maximum[2] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h)[6] |
Endurance |
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Test depth | 300 ft (90 m)[6] |
Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[6] |
Armament |
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USS Finback (SS-230), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the finback. Nine of Finback's twelve World War II patrols in the Pacific were designated as "successful"; she received 13 battle stars for her service and is credited with having sunk nearly 70 thousand tons of enemy shipping.