USS Roncador (SS-301)
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 The fairwater of the 301's conning tower is a submarine memorial at Naval Base Point Loma. |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 21 April 1943 |
| Launched: | 14 May 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 27 March 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 June 1946 |
| Struck: | 1 December 1971 |
| Fate: | scrapped |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement, Surfaced: Submerged: |
1,526 tons (1550 t), 2,424 tons (2460 t) |
| Length: | 311.8 ft (95.0 m) |
| Beam: | 27.3 ft (8.3 m) |
| Draft: | 15.3 ft (4.6 m) |
| Depth limit: | 400 ft (120 m) |
| Speed, Surfaced: Submerged: |
20.25 knots (37 km/h) 8.75 knots (16 km/h) |
| Propulsion: | four 5400-hp Diesel engines, four 2740-hp (2.0 MW) electric motors, two propellers |
| Submerged Endurance: | 48 hours at 2 knots |
| Patrol Endurance: | 75 days |
| Range: | 11,000 nautical miles (20,400 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 6 Officers, 60 Enlisted |
| Armament: | ten 21" torpedo tubes, (six forward, four aft), 24 torpedoes, one 4"/50 deck gun, four machine guns |
| Motto: | |
USS Roncador (SS/AGSS/IXSS-301), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the roncador, a fish, of the family Sciaenidae, found on the west coast of North America.
Roncador (SS-301) was laid down 21 April 1943 by the Cramp Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; launched 14 May 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Thomas B. Klakring; and commissioned 27 March 1945, Comdr. Earl R. Crawford in command.
Following commissioning, Roncador conducted shakedown exercises into late May and on the 26th arrived at Port Everglades, Fla. Based there for 2 months, she assisted in the development of antisubmarine warfare techniques. On 29 July she got underway for Panama and from 3 August through the end of the war conducted advanced training exercises off the Canal Zone. In late August, she proceeded to Guantanamo Bay, then, in mid-September, headed for the Pacific. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 3 October and remained in Hawaiian waters into the new year, 1946. On 3 January she got underway for San Francisco and inactivation.
Roncador was decommissioned 1 June 1946 and through the 1950s remained in the inactive fleet. In February 1960 she was taken out of mothballs, placed in reserve, and assigned to Naval Reserve training duty in the 11th Naval District. Redesignated AGSS-301 1 December 1962, she continued that duty, at San Pedro, Calif., until 1 December 1971, at which time she was stricken from the Naval Register, and redesignated Miscellaneous Unclassified Submarine IXSS-301. Her conning tower was placed in the Navy Museum, Washington, DC prior to Roncador being scrapped.
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This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
