USS Comber (SS-527)
For other ships of the same name, see USS Comber.
| Career (United States) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Comber |
| Namesake: | The comber, a fish |
| Builder: | Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts (proposed) |
| Laid down: | Never |
| Fate: | Construction contract cancelled 29 July 1944 |
| 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] 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries[3] |
| 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 Comber (SS-527), a Tench-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to bear the name. She was named for the comber, a fish found in the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the eastern Atlantic as far north as the British Isles.
Her name was assigned on 5 May 1944, but construction was canceled on 29 July 1944.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 280–282. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
- ↑ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 261–263
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.svg.png){kind=small}