USS Sea Panther (SS-528)

Career (United States)
Name: USS Sea Panther
Namesake: The sea panther, a South African 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]
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 Sea Panther (SS-528), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea panther, a black-spotted, South African fish. Her name was assigned, but construction was canceled on 29 July 1944 before she was laid down.

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