USS Sturgeon (SS-187)
Salmon-class submarine composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine
Service
- as Sturgeon25 June 1938 — 15 November 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS Sturgeon
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-187
- Namesake
- Sturgeon
- Builder
- Mare Island Naval Shipyard
- Laid down
- 27 October 1936
- Launched
- 15 March 1938
- Commissioned
- 25 June 1938
- Decommissioned
- 15 November 1945
- Struck
- 30 April 1948
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 12 June 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Length
- 93.88 m (308 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 59
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
A large, bony-plated fish with an elongated body. It is found in both fresh and salt water, especially in the North Temperate Zone, and is an important source of caviar and isinglass.
The first Sturgeon (SS-187) was laid down on 27 October 1936 by the Navy Yard, Mare Island, Calif.; launched on 15 March 1938; sponsored by Mrs. Charles S. Freeman; and commissioned on 25 June 1938, Lt. Comdr. A. D. Barnes in command.
Sturgeon completed builder's trials in Monterey Bay and began her shakedown cruise on 15 October, visiting ports in Mexico, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Ecuador, and Costa Rica before returning to San Diego on 12 December 1938. She was assigned to Submarine Squadron (SubRon) 6 and operated along the west coast as far north as Washington. She made two squadron cruises to Hawaii with the Pacific Fleet: from 1 July to 16 August 1939 and from 1 April to 12 July 1940. The submarine departed San Diego on 5 November 1940 for Pearl Harbor and operated from there until November 1941.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Sturgeon I (SS-187)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines (two hydraulic-drive, two driving electrical generators)
- 2 × 120-cell batteries
- 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors with reduction gears
- two shafts
- 5,500 shp (4.1 MW) surfaced
- 2,660 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
- Armament
- 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- (four forward, four aft)
- 24 torpedoes
- 1 × 3 in / 50-caliber deck gun
- four machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Sturgeon (SS-187) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Sturgeon I (SS-187) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: The original uploader was Wwoods at English Wikipedia . Later versions were uploaded by Raul654 at en.wikipedia . — Unknown source — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons