USS Drum (SS-228)
Service
- 1 November 1941 — 16 February 19461,401 days of the war
- Name
- USS Drum
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-228
- Namesake
- Drum, Fish
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Ordered
- 12 June 1940
- Laid down
- 11 September 1940
- Launched
- 12 May 1941
- Commissioned
- 1 November 1941
- Decommissioned
- 16 February 1946
- Struck
- 30 June 1968
- Fate
- Museum ship 14 April 1969 (1969)
- Status
- Preserved
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,490 long tons (1,514 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,060 long tons (2,093 t)
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 83
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
A bottom-dwelling fish of the family Sciaenidae , known for making a drumming or croaking noise by using muscles associated with its air bladder.
Drum (SS-228) was laid down on 11 September 1940 at Portsmouth [N.H.] Navy Yard, N. H.; launched on 12 May 1941; and sponsored by Mrs. Beatrice M. [Clover] Holcomb, the wife of Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps and daughter of Rear Adm. Richardson Clover (Ret.).
Commissioned at her building yard on 1 November 1941, Lt. Cmdr. Robert H. “Bob” Rice (USNA 1927), in command, Drum conducted her shakedown between 1 November and 7 December 1941, during which she trained and ran trials out of New London, Conn., Key West, Fla., and Balboa, C.Z. Following the devastating Japanese surprise attack on U.S. naval and military forces on Oahu on 7 December 1941, Drum immediately underwent voyage repairs and completed additional training in anticipation of a deployment to the Pacific.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Drum (SS-228)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-<templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄8 9-cylinder opposed-piston diesel engines driving electrical generators
- 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
- 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors with reduction gears
- 2 × propellers
- 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced
- 2,740 shp (2.04 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 Bashaw
- 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 Finback (SS-230)
- USS Flasher (SS-249)
- USS Flier
- USS Flounder
- USS Flying Fish (SS-229)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Drum (SS-228) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Drum (SS-228) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Jean-Pierre Martin — Self-photographed — CC BY-SA 3.0 — Wikimedia Commons