USS Piper
- Displacement
- 1,526 long tons (1,550 t)
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Speed
- 20.3 knots (37.5 km/h, 23.3 mph)
- Complement
- 10
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Service
- 23 August 1944 — 16 June 1967375 days of the war
- Name
- USS Piper
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 15 March 1944
- Launched
- 26 June 1944
- Commissioned
- 23 August 1944
- Decommissioned
- 16 June 1967
- Struck
- 1 July 1970
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, June 1971 (1971)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,526 long tons (1,550 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,401 long tons (2,440 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 Piper was a Balao-class submarine diesel-electric submarine in service with the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine on 15 March 1944. Launched on 26 June 1944, she entered service on 23 August 1944.
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 2,401 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 375 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 16 June 1967. She was struck from the register on 1 July 1970.
She was broken up for scrap in 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 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 10-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators
- 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
- 2 × low-speed direct-drive Elliott electric motors
- 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 × 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 Piper on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.