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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Builder | General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
| Laid down | 25 March 1935[1] |
| Launched | 7 July 1936[1] |
| Commissioned | 26 January 1937[1] |
| Stricken | 19 August 1943 |
| Fate | Sunk by Japanese forces north of Honshū on 3 April 1943[2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Porpoise-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
| Displacement | 1,350 tons (1,372 t) standard, surfaced,[3] 1,997 tons (2,029 t) submerged[3] |
| Length | 298 ft (91 m) (waterline),[4] 300 ft 6 in (91.59 m) (overall)[5] |
| Beam | 25 ft 7⁄8 in (7.6 m)[3] |
| Draft | 15 ft (4.6 m)[3] |
| Propulsion | 4 × Winton Model 16-201A 16-cylinder two-cycle[6] diesel engines, 1,300 hp (0.97 MW) each,[7] driving electrical generators through reduction gears,[2][8] 2 × 120-cell Gould AMTX33HB batteries,[9] 8 × General Electric electric motors, 538 hp (401 kW) each,[9] 2 × General Motors six-cylinder four-cycle 6-241 auxiliary diesels[7] |
| Speed | 19.25 kn (35.65 km/h) surfaced,[3] 8.75 kn (16.21 km/h) submerged[3] |
| Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) @ 10 kn (19 km/h),[3] (bunkerage 92,801 US gallons (351,290 L)[10] |
| Endurance | 10 hours @ 5 kn (9.3 km/h), 36 hours @ minimum speed submerged[3] |
| Test depth | 250 ft (76 m)[3] |
| Complement | 5 officers, 45 enlisted[3] |
| Armament | 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, two aft; 16 torpedoes)[3] (two external bow tubes added 1942),[10] 1 × 4 in (100 mm)/50 cal deck gun,[5] 4 × 0.3 cal (7.62 mm) machine guns (2x2)[5] |
USS Pickerel (SS-177), a Porpoise-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the pickerel, species of freshwater fish native to the eastern United States and Canada.
Her keel was laid on 25 March 1935 by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 7 July 1936 sponsored by Miss Evelyn Standley, daughter of Rear Admiral William Standley, acting Secretary of the Navy. She was commissioned on 26 January 1937, Lieutenant Leon J. Huffman in command.
- ^ 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 Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
- ^ Lenton, H. T. American Submarines (New York: Doubleday, 1973), p.45.
- ^ a b c Lenton, p.45.
- ^ Alden, John D., Commander, USN (retired). The Fleet Submarine in the U.S. Navy (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1979), p.210.
- ^ a b Alden, p.210.
- ^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp.261–263
- ^ a b Alden, p.211.
- ^ a b Alden, p.62.