USS Salmon (SS-182)

History
United States
Builder	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
Laid down	15 April 1936
Launched	12 June 1937
Commissioned	15 March 1938
Decommissioned	24 September 1945
Stricken	11 October 1945
Fate	Constructive loss due to battle damage; broken up for scrap, 1946
General characteristics
Class and type	Salmon-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine
Displacement	1,435 long tons (1,458 t) standard, surfaced; 2,198 long tons (2,233 t) submerged;
Length	308 ft 0 in (93.88 m)
Beam	26 ft 1+1⁄4 in (7.957 m)
Draft	15 ft 8 in (4.78 m)
Propulsion	4 × Hooven-Owens-Rentschler (H.O.R.) 9-cylinder diesel engines (two hydraulic-drive, two driving electrical generators); 2 × 120-cell batteries; 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors with reduction gears; two shafts; 5,500 shp (4.1 MW) surfaced; 2,660 shp (2.0 MW) submerged;
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced; 9 knots (17 km/h) submerged;
Range	11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Endurance	48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged
Test depth	250 ft (76 m)
Complement	5 officers, 54 enlisted
Armament	8 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes; (four forward, four aft); 24 torpedoes; 1 × 3 in (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun; four machine guns;

USS Salmon (SS-182) was the lead ship of her class of submarine. She was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the salmon.

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 269. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
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