Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
United States Navy — Submarine

USS Bugara

Balao-class submarine diesel-electric submarine

USS Bugara
Unknown author — Unknown source — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate USS_Bugara; https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08331.htm Bugara (SS-331) port side view underway, circa 1969, location unknown. US Navy photo courtesy of Electric Boat & http://usssubvetsofwwii.org .

Service

  1. United States Navy as USS Bugara (SS-331)15 November 1944 — 1 October 1970291 days of the war
Balao-class submarine diesel-electric submarine Particulars
Name
USS Bugara
Namesake
Bugara
Builder
Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
Laid down
21 October 1943
Launched
2 July 1944
Commissioned
15 November 1944
Decommissioned
1 October 1970
Struck
1 October 1970
Fate
Foundered while under tow off Cape Flattery, Washington, 1 June 1971 (1971)
Status
Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced
1,526 long tons (1,550 t)
Displacement, submerged
2,424 long tons (2,463 t)
Length
94.79 m (311 ft)
Beam
8.23 m (27 ft)
Draught
4.88 m (16 ft)
Speed
20.3 knots (37.5 km/h, 23.3 mph)
Range
11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
Complement
10
Main gun
127 mm (5 in)

USS Bugara was a Balao-class submarine diesel-electric submarine built for the United States Navy. She was named for Bugara. Her keel was laid at Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut on 21 October 1943. She entered service on 15 November 1944, having been launched on 2 July 1944.

111 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Gato-class submarine and was succeeded by the Tench-class submarine.

The boat displaced 1,526 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). Her designed speed was 20.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 10. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.

She was in commission for 291 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 1 October 1970. She was struck from the register on 1 October 1970.

She was wrecked on 1 June 1971.

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 16-278A V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators
  • 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
  • 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears
  • 2 × 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 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun
  • Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

Sister ships

86 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from USS Bugara on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Unknown author — Unknown source — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons