USS Argonaut (SM-1)
V-boat V-4 composite direct-drive diesel and diesel-electric submarine
Service
- as USS Argonaut2 April 1928 — 10 January 19431,227 days of the war
- Name
- USS Argonaut
- Pennant / hull number
- SM-1
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 1 May 1925
- Launched
- 10 November 1927
- Commissioned
- 2 April 1928
- Fate
- Sunk by Japanese destroyers off Rabaul on 10 January 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 2,710 long tons (2,753 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 4,161 long tons (4,228 t)
- Length
- 109.12 m (358 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Draught
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Speed
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Range
- 8,000 nmi (14,816 km)
- Complement
- 86
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
USS Argonaut was a V-boat V-4 composite direct-drive diesel and diesel-electric submarine built for the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number SM-1. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine laid her keel on 1 May 1925. She entered service on 2 April 1928, having been launched on 10 November 1927.
The boat displaced 2,710 long tons surfaced and 4,161 long tons submerged. She measured 109.1 m (358 ft) long with a beam of 10.1 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 15 knots, and she carried a complement of 86. Her main battery was of 152 mm (6.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,227 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 10 January 1943, at 5°40′S 153°55′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- As Built: 2 × BuEng (MAN-designed) direct-drive main diesel engines, 1400 hp each.
- 1 × BuEng MAN auxiliary diesel-electric diesel generator, 300 kW
- Re-Engined 1942: 4 × General Motors Winton main diesel engines, 1200 hp each
- 1 × GM Winton 300 kW and 1 × GM Winton 150 kW auxiliary diesel generators
- 2 × 120-cell Exide ULS37 batteries
- 2 × Ridgway electric motors, 1100 hp each
- 2 × shafts
- Armament
- As Built: 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (bow; 16 torpedoes)
- 2 × 40 inch (1,016 mm)minelaying tubes aft (60 mines)
- 2 × 6 inch (152 mm)/53 caliber Mark XII Mod 2 wet type deck guns
- 1942: 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern external; 20 torpedoes)
- minelaying tubes removed
- 2 × 6 inch deck guns as above
- 2 × 20 mm cannon
- 2 × .30 caliber machine guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Argonaut (SM-1) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons