History | |
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United States | |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 6 December 1940[1] |
Launched | 9 July 1941[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Husband E. Kimmel |
Commissioned | 10 December 1941[1] |
Decommissioned | 28 May 1954[1] |
Stricken | 1 August 1958[1] |
Honors and awards | 12 × battle stars |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 1 May 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 nautical miles (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 Flying Fish (SS/AGSS-229), a Gato-class submarine, was the first submarine and second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flying fish. Flying Fish is credited with having sunk a total of 58,306 tons of Japanese shipping and received 12 battle stars for World War II service.