| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Sculpin |
| Namesake: | The sculpin |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine (proposed) |
| Laid down: | Never |
| Fate: | Construction contract cancelled 12 August 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Tench-class diesel-electric submarine [1] |
| Displacement: | 1,570 tons (1,595 t) surfaced [1] 2,416 tons (2,455 t) submerged [1] |
| Length: | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m) [1] |
| Beam: | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) [1] |
| Draft: | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum [1] |
| Propulsion: |
4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 10-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators[1][2] |
| Speed: | 20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced [3] 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged [3] |
| Range: | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) [3] |
| Endurance: | 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged [3] 75 days on patrol |
| Test depth: | 400 ft (120 m) [3] |
| Complement: | 10 officers, 71 enlisted [3] |
| Armament: | 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft) 28 torpedoes [3] 1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun [3] Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon |
USS Sculpin (SS-494), a Tench-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sculpin, a spiny, large-headed, broad-mouthed, usually scale-less fish of the family Cottidae. Her construction by the Portsmouth Navy Yard was authorized but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 12 August 1945.