United States Navy — Submarine class
United States Porpoise-class submarine
Porpoise class
The class in numbers
- 10 Completed
- 4 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1933–1937
- In commission
- 1935–1945
- Preceded by
- Cachalot-class submarine
- Succeeded by
- Salmon-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.
P 1 Type
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,316 long tons (1,337 t)
- Length
- 91.74 m (301 ft) OA
- Speed
- 18 knots (33.3 km/h, 20.7 mph)
- Complement
- 54
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
- Armament
- 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- (four forward, two aft; 16 torpedoes)
- 1 × 3 inch (76mm)/50 caliber deck gun
- 2 × .50-caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns
- 4 × .30-caliber (7.62 mm) machine guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Perch (SS-176) | SS-176 | 1936 | Scuttled 1942 |
| USS Permit (SS-178) | SS-178 | 1937 | Scrapped 1958 |
| USS Pickerel (SS-177) | SS-177 | 1937 | Sunk 1943 |
| USS Pike (SS-173) | SS-173 | 1935 | 1957 |
| USS Plunger (SS-179) | SS-179 | 1936 | 1957 |
| USS Pollack (SS-180) | SS-180 | 1937 | 1947 |
| USS Pompano (SS-181) | SS-181 | 1937 | Disposed 1943 |
| USS Porpoise (SS-172) | SS-172 | 1935 | Scrapped 1957 |
| USS Shark (SS-174) | SS-174 | 1936 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Tarpon (SS-175) | SS-175 | 1936 | Wrecked 1957 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from United States Porpoise-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.