Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

United States Navy — Submarine class

Tench-class submarine

The class in numbers

  • 29 Completed
  • 51 Cancelled
  • 1 Lost
  • 3 Preserved

Design and service

Type
Submarine
Navy
United States Navy
Built
1944–1951
In commission
1944–present
Preceded by
Balao-class submarine
Succeeded by
Barracuda class
Operators
Brazil
Builders
  • Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
  • Electric Boat Company
  • Boston Navy Yard
Subclasses
Corsair class

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, surfaced
1,570 long tons (1,595 t)
Displacement, submerged
2,429 long tons (2,468 t)
Length
94.79 m (311 ft)
Speed
20.3 knots (37.5 km/h, 23.3 mph)
Complement
81

Roster

Holding 24 of the 29 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.

Vessel Pennant Commissioned Fate
PNS Ghazi SS-479 1945 Sunk 1971
USS Amberjack (SS-522) SS-522 1946 Preserved
USS Argonaut (SS-475) SS-475 1945 Scrapped 1977
USS Conger 1945 Scrapped 1964
USS Cutlass 1945 Transferred 1973
USS Diablo SS-479 1945 Sunk 1971
USS Grampus (SS-523) SS-523 1949 Scrapped 1981
USS Irex 1945 Scrapped 1971
USS Medregal 1945 Scrapped 1972
USS Odax 1945 Scrapped 1981
USS Pickerel (SS-524) SS-524 1949 Transferred 1972
USS Quillback 1944 Scrapped 1974
USS Remora SS-487 1946 Transferred 1973
USS Requin 1945 Preserved
USS Runner (SS-476) SS-476 1945 Scrapped 1973
USS Sea Leopard 1945 Scrapped 1998
USS Tench 1944 Transferred 1976
USS Thornback SS-418 1944 Preserved
USS Tigrone 1944 Target 1976
USS Tirante 1944 Scrapped 1974
USS Toro 1944 Scrapped 1965
USS Torsk SS-423 1944 Preserved 1972
USS Trutta 1944 Transferred 1972
USS Volador (SS-490) SS-490 1948 Transferred 1972

Sources