United States Navy — Submarine class
Tambor-class submarine
Tambor class
The class in numbers
- 12 Completed
- 7 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1939–1941
- In commission
- 1940–1946
- Preceded by
- Sargo-class submarine
- Succeeded by
- Mackerel-class submarine
- Builders
- Electric Boat Company, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Length
- 93.57 m (307 ft)
- Speed
- 20.4 knots (37.8 km/h, 23.5 mph)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
- Armament
- 10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft)
- 24 torpedoes
- 1 × 3-inch (76 mm)/50 caliber deck gun
Roster
Holding 11 of the 12 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Gar | 1941 | Scrapped 1959 | |
| USS Grampus (SS-207) | SS-207 | 1941 | Sunk 1943 |
| USS Grayback (SS-208) | SS-208 | 1941 | Sunk 1944 |
| USS Grayling (SS-209) | SS-209 | 1941 | Sunk 1943 |
| USS Grenadier (SS-210) | SS-210 | 1941 | Scuttled 1943 |
| USS Gudgeon (SS-211) | SS-211 | 1941 | Sunk 1944 |
| USS Tambor | 1940 | Preserved 1959 | |
| USS Tautog (SS-199) | SS-199 | 1940 | Scrapped 1960 |
| USS Thresher (SS-200) | SS-200 | 1940 | Scrapped 1948 |
| USS Triton (SS-201) | SS-201 | 1940 | Sunk 1943 |
| USS Tuna (SS-203) | SS-203 | 1941 | Target 1948 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Tambor-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.