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&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Seawolf;0819707.jpg) Seawolf underway off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California on 7 March 1943
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | Seawolf |
| Namesake | Atlantic wolffish |
| Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
| Laid down | 27 September 1938[1] |
| Launched | 15 August 1939[1] |
| Commissioned | 1 December 1939[1] |
| Stricken | 20 January 1945 |
| Fate | Probably sunk by friendly fire from USS Richard M. Rowell off Morotai on 3 October 1944[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 long tons (2,390 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] 5,400 shp (4,000 kW) surfaced,[2] 2,740 shp (2,040 kW) submerged[2] |
| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced,[3] 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged[3] |
| Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)[3] |
| Endurance | 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged[3] |
| Test depth | 250 ft (76 m)[3] |
| Complement | 5 officers, 54 enlisted[3] |
| Armament | 8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, four aft; 24 torpedoes {Mark 14s as designed, mixed with Mark 10s or mines during World War Two}),[3] 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal deck gun,[3] 4 × machine guns |
USS Seawolf (SS-197), a Sargo-class submarine, was the second submarine of the United States Navy named for the seawolf.
- ^ 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 d e f g 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
- ^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 202–204