USS Seadragon (SS-194)

History
United States
Builder	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
Laid down	18 April 1938
Launched	21 April 1939
Commissioned	23 October 1939
Decommissioned	15 November 1945
Recommissioned	8 February 1946
Decommissioned	29 October 1946
Stricken	30 April 1948
Fate	Sold for scrap, 2 July 1948
General characteristics
Class and type	Sargo-class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement	1,450 long tons (1,470 t) standard, surfaced; 2,350 long tons (2,390 t) submerged;
Length	310 ft 6 in (94.64 m)
Beam	26 ft 10 in (8.18 m)
Draft	16 ft 8 in (5.08 m)
Propulsion	4 × Hooven-Owens-Rentschler (H.O.R.) 9-cylinder diesel engines driving electric generators; 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries; 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears; two shafts; 5,200 shp (3.9 MW) surfaced; 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged;
Speed	20.8 knots (39 km/h) surfaced; 8.75 knots (16 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 Seadragon (SS-194), a Sargo-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the leafy seadragon.

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
^ ^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. pp. 269–270. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
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