USS Bashaw
Service
- 25 October 1943 — 13 September 1969678 days of the war
- Name
- USS Bashaw
- Builder
- General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 4 December 1942
- Launched
- 25 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 25 October 1943
- Decommissioned
- 29 June 1949
- Recommissioned
- 3 April 1951
- Struck
- 13 September 1969
- Fate
- Sunk as target July 1972 or sold for scrap 4 August 1972 (sources disagree) (1972)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,525 long tons (1,549 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,424 long tons (2,463 t)
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Bashaw was a Gato-class diesel-electric submarine in service with the United States Navy. General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut laid her keel on 4 December 1942. She entered service on 25 October 1943, having been launched on 25 July 1943.
76 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Mackerel-class submarine and was succeeded by the Balao-class submarine.
The boat displaced 1,525 long tons surfaced and 2,424 long tons submerged. She measured 94.8 m (311 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). She carried a complement of 60. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 678 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 29 June 1949. She recommissioned on 3 April 1951. She was struck from the register on 13 September 1969.
She was expended as a target on 4 August 1972. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 Diesel engines driving electric generators
- 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
- 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears
- two propellers
- 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced
- 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
- Armament
- 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 6 forward, 4 aft
- 24 torpedoes
- 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun
- Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Sister ships
- USS Albacore (SS-218)
- USS Amberjack (SS-219)
- USS Angler
- USS Barb (SS-220)
- USS Blackfish
- USS Bluefish (SS-222)
- USS Bluegill
- USS Bonefish (SS-223)
- USS Bream
- USS Cavalla (SS-244)
- USS Cero (SS-225)
- USS Cobia
- USS Cod
- USS Corvina
- USS Croaker
- USS Dace (SS-247)
- USS Darter (SS-227)
- USS Dorado (SS-248)
- USS Drum (SS-228)
- USS Finback (SS-230)
- USS Flasher (SS-249)
- USS Flier
- USS Flounder
- USS Flying Fish (SS-229)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Bashaw on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: US Navy photo courtesy of George M. Arnold. — SS_Bashaw; https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08241.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons