USS Sealion (SS-195)

History
United States
Builder	General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut[1]
Laid down	30 June 1938[1]
Launched	25 May 1939[1]
Commissioned	27 November 1939[1]
Fate	Scuttled at Cavite on 25 December 1941 after being damaged by Japanese aircraft on 10 December 1941[2]
General characteristics
Class and type	Sargo-class diesel-electric submarine[2]
Displacement	1,450 long tons (1,470 t) standard, surfaced,[3] 2,350 tons (2,388 t) submerged[3]
Length	310 ft 6 in (94.64 m)[3]
Beam	26 ft 10 in (8.18 m)[3]
Draft	16 ft 7+1⁄2 in (5.067 m)[3]
Propulsion	4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators,[2][4] 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries,[3] 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears,[2] two shafts,[2] 5,200 shp (4.1 MW) surfaced,[2] 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged[2]
Speed	21 kn (39 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]
Endurance	48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged[3]
Test depth	250 ft (76 m)[3]
Complement	5 officers, 54 enlisted[3]
Armament	8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, four aft; 24 torpedoes),[3] 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal deck gun,[3] four machine guns

USS Sealion (SS-195), a Sargo-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea lion, any of several large, eared seals native to the Pacific.