| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Vendace |
| Namesake: | The vendace |
| Builder: | Cramp Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (proposed) |
| Laid down: | Never |
| Fate: | Construction contract cancelled 29 July 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Balao class diesel-electric submarine[1] |
| Displacement: | 1,526 long tons (1,550 t) surfaced,[1] 2,414 long tons (2,453 t) submerged[1] |
| Length: | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[1] |
| Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[1] |
| Draft: | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[1] |
| Propulsion: |
4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators[1][2] |
| Speed: | 20.25 kn (37.50 km/h) surfaced,[3] 8.75 kn (16.21 km/h) submerged[3] |
| Range: | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced @ 10 kn (19 km/h)[3] |
| Endurance: | 48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged,[3] 75 days on patrol |
| Test depth: | 400 ft (120 m)[3] |
| Complement: | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[3] |
| Armament: | 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft) 24 torpedoes [3] 1 × 4-inch (102 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun [3] Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon |
USS Vendace (SS-430), a proposed World War II Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the vendace, a species of whitefish native to Lochmaben in Scotland. Her construction by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was authorized but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 29 July 1944.