USS Rock
Service
- 26 October 1943 — 13 September 1969677 days of the war
- Name
- USS Rock
- Builder
- Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
- Laid down
- 23 December 1942
- Launched
- 20 June 1943
- Commissioned
- 26 October 1943
- Decommissioned
- 1 May 1946
- Recommissioned
- 12 October 1953
- Struck
- 13 September 1969
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 17 August 1972 (1972)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- 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
- 60
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Rock was a Gato-class submarine diesel-electric submarine of the United States Navy. Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin laid her keel on 23 December 1942. She entered service on 26 October 1943, having been launched on 20 June 1943.
She was one of 76 ships of her class. The class followed the Mackerel-class submarine and was succeeded by the Balao-class submarine.
She measured 94.8 m (311 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 21 knots, and she carried a complement of 60. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 677 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 1 May 1946. She recommissioned on 12 October 1953. She was struck from the register on 13 September 1969.
She was broken up for scrap on 17 August 1972.
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 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 Drum (SS-228)
- USS Finback (SS-230)
- USS Flasher (SS-249)
- USS Flier
- USS Flounder
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Rock on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: US Navy photo — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08274.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons