USS Toro
Service
- 8 December 1944 — 11 March 1963268 days of the war
- Name
- USS Toro
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 27 May 1944
- Launched
- 23 August 1944
- Commissioned
- 8 December 1944
- Decommissioned
- 2 February 1946
- Recommissioned
- 13 May 1947
- Struck
- 1 April 1963
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, April 1965 (1965)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,570 long tons (1,595 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,414 long tons (2,453 t)
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 20.3 knots (37.5 km/h, 23.3 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 81
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Toro was a Tench-class diesel-electric submarine built for the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine on 27 May 1944. She entered service on 8 December 1944, having been launched on 23 August 1944.
24 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Balao-class submarine and was succeeded by the Barracuda class.
The boat displaced 1,570 long tons surfaced and 2,414 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 81. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 268 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 2 February 1946. She recommissioned on 13 May 1947. She was struck from the register on 1 April 1963.
She was broken up for scrap in April 1965.
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)
- 28 torpedoes
- 1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun
- Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Sister ships
- PNS Ghazi
- USS Amberjack (SS-522)
- USS Argonaut (SS-475)
- USS Conger
- USS Cutlass
- USS Diablo
- USS Grampus (SS-523)
- USS Irex
- USS Medregal
- USS Odax
- USS Pickerel (SS-524)
- USS Quillback
- USS Remora
- USS Requin
- USS Runner (SS-476)
- USS Sea Leopard
- USS Tench
- USS Thornback
- USS Tigrone
- USS Tirante
- USS Torsk
- USS Trutta
- USS Volador (SS-490)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Toro on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo [1] from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons