Career (United States) | |
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Name: | USS Wahoo |
Namesake: | The wahoo |
Builder: | Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California |
Laid down: | 15 May 1944 |
Launched: | Never |
Fate: | Construction contract cancelled 7 January 1946 |
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 Wahoo (SS-516), a Tench-class submarine. Her construction by the Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California, was authorized and her keel was laid down on 15 May 1944, but the contract for her construction was canceled on 7 January 1946.