USS Loggerhead
Service
- 9 February 1945 — 16 June 1946205 days of the war
- Name
- USS Loggerhead
- Builder
- Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
- Laid down
- 1 April 1944
- Launched
- 13 August 1944
- Commissioned
- 9 February 1945
- Decommissioned
- 16 June 1946
- Struck
- 30 June 1967
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 29 August 1969 (1969)
- Status
- Scrapped
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 Loggerhead was a Balao-class submarine diesel-electric submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin on 1 April 1944. Launched on 13 August 1944, she entered service on 9 February 1945.
Her class ran to 111 ships. 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 205 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 16 June 1946. She was struck from the register on 30 June 1967.
She was broken up for scrap on 29 August 1969.
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
- ARA Santa Fe (S-21)
- USS Apogon
- USS Archerfish (SS-311)
- USS Aspro (SS-309)
- USS Atule
- USS Balao
- USS Bang
- USS Barbel (SS-316)
- USS Barbero
- USS Batfish (SS-310)
- USS Baya
- USS Becuna
- USS Bergall (SS-320)
- USS Besugo
- USS Billfish (SS-286)
- USS Blackfin
- USS Blanquillo (SS-323)
- USS Blenny
- USS Blower
- USS Blueback (SS-326)
- USS Boarfish
- USS Bowfin
- USS Brill
- USS Bugara
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Loggerhead on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Photo by Harry Berns, Official photographer of the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI. — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08374.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons