USS Ono (SS-357)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Ono.
Career (United States)
Name: USS Ono
Namesake: The ono or wahoo
Builder: Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut (proposed)[1]
Laid down: Never
Fate: Construction contract cancelled 29 July 1944
General characteristics
Class and type:Balao class diesel-electric submarine[2]
Displacement:1,526 long tons (1,550 t) surfaced,[2] 2,414 long tons (2,453 t) submerged[2]
Length:311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2]
Beam:27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2]
Draft:16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2]
Propulsion:4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators[2][3]

2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries [4]
4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears [2]
two propellers [2]
5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced[2]

2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged[2]
Speed:20.25 kn (37.50 km/h) surfaced,[4] 8.75 kn (16.21 km/h) submerged[4]
Range:11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced @ 10 kn (19 km/h)[4]
Endurance:48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged,[4] 75 days on patrol
Test depth:400 ft (120 m)[4]
Complement:10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[4]
Armament:10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
 (six forward, four aft)
 24 torpedoes[4]
1 × 4-inch (102 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun[4]
Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

USS Ono (SS-357), would have been a Balao-class submarine, the first submarine and second ship of the United States Navy of that name. This Ono took its name from the ono, a dark blue scombrid fish found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas, also known as the wahoo.

Ono (SS–357), ex-Friar, was authorized for construction at the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut, but the contract was cancelled 29 July 1944.

References

  1. Conway '​s All the World '​s Fighting Ships 1922-1946, p. 146
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 275–280. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
  3. U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 261
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 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.

  • Gardiner, Robert, Ed. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946. New York: Mayflower Books, 1980. ISBN 0-8317-0303-2.