USS Corvina (SS-226)
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| Career |  |
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| Builder: | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
| Laid down: | 21 September 1942[1] |
| Launched: | 9 May 1943[1] |
| Commissioned: | 6 August 1943[1] |
| Fate: | Sunk by Japanese submarine I-176 south of Truk, 16 November 1943[2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
| Displacement: | 1,525 tons (1,549 t) surfaced[2] 2,424 tons (2,460 t) submerged[2] |
| Length: | 311 ft 9 in (95.0 m)[2] |
| Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.3 m)[2] |
| Draft: | 17 ft 0 in (5.2 m) maximum[2] |
| Propulsion: |
4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators[2][3] |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced[4] 9 knots (17 km/h) submerged[4] |
| Range: | 11,000 nm (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[4] |
| Endurance: | 48 hours at 2 knots (4 km/h) submerged[4] 75 days on patrol |
| Test depth: | 300 ft (90 m)[4] |
| Complement: | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[4] |
| Armament: | 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft) 24 torpedoes [4] 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun [4] four machine guns |
USS Corvina (SS-226), a Gato-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the corvina, any of various important food fishes related to the weakfish and the croaker of the Atlantic coast. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 9 May 1943 sponsored by Mrs. R. W. Christie, and commissioned on 6 August 1943 with Commander Roderick S. Rooney (Class of 1929) in command.
Clearing New London, Connecticut, on 18 September 1943, Corvina arrived at Pearl Harbor on 14 October. She put out from Pearl Harbor on her maiden war patrol 4 November, topped off her fuel tanks at Johnston Island on 6 November, and was never heard from again.
Her assignment had been a dangerous one: to patrol as closely as possible to the heavily-guarded stronghold of Truk and to intercept any Japanese sortie endangering the forthcoming American invasion of the Gilbert Islands. Japanese records report that Japanese submarine I-176 fired three torpedoes at an enemy submarine south of Truk 16 November, claiming two hits which resulted in the explosion of the target. If this was Corvina she was the only American submarine to be sunk by a Japanese submarine in the entire war. Her loss with her crew of 82 was announced 14 March 1944. See also List of U.S. Navy losses in World War II.
[edit] References
- ^ 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 h i j k l Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, pp. 271–273. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
- ^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 261
- ^ a b c d e f g h i U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305-311
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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