United States Navy — Submarine class
Salmon-class submarine
The class in numbers
- 6 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1936–1938
- In commission
- 1937–1946
- Preceded by
- Porpoise class
- Succeeded by
- Sargo-class submarine
- Builders
- Electric Boat Company, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,435 long tons (1,458 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,198 long tons (2,233 t)
- Length
- 93.88 m (308 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Complement
- 59
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- (four forward, four aft)
- 24 torpedoes
- 1 × 3 inch (76 mm)/50 caliber deck gun
- four machine guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Salmon (SS-182) | SS-182 | 1938 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Seal (SS-183) | SS-183 | 1938 | Scrapped 1957 |
| USS Skipjack (SS-184) | SS-184 | 1938 | Target 1946 |
| USS Snapper (SS-185) | SS-185 | 1937 | Scrapped 1948 |
| USS Stingray (SS-186) | SS-186 | 1938 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Sturgeon (SS-187) | SS-187 | 1938 | Scrapped 1948 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Salmon-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.