USS Dorado (SS-526)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Dorado.
Career (United States)
Name: USS Dorado
Namesake: The dorado, also known as the dolphin fish or mahi-mahi
Builder: Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
Laid down: Date unknown
Launched: 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]
2 × low-speed direct-drive General Electric electric motors [1]
two propellers [1]
5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced[1]

2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged[1]
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 Dorado (SS-526), a Tench-class submarine, was the second submarine of the United States Navy to be named for the dorado, the Spanish language name for the fish also known as the dolphinfish and the mahi-mahi. Her keel was laid down, but construction was canceled on 29 July 1944.

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 261–263
  3. ↑ 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