United States Navy — Submarine
SS-309
USS Aspro (SS-309)
Service
- 31 July 1943 — 7 September 1962767 days of the war
Balao-class submarine diesel-electric submarine
Particulars
- Name
- USS Aspro
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-309
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 27 December 1942
- Launched
- 7 April 1943
- Commissioned
- 31 July 1943
- Decommissioned
- 30 January 1946
- Recommissioned
- 23 September 1951
- Struck
- 7 September 1962
- Fate
- Sunk as a target off San Diego, California on 16 November 1962 (1962)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 10
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
The name Acedia was assigned on 23 August 1942 to the Balao- class submarine SS-309, but was changed to Aspro (q.v.) on 24 September 1942, a little over three months prior to keel-laying at the Portsmouth [N.H.] Navy Yard.
From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Acedia (SS-309)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-<templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄8 9-cylinder opposed-piston diesel engines driving electrical generators
- 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
- 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors with reduction gears
- 2 × propellers
- 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced
- 2,740 shp (2.04 MW) submerged
- Armament
- 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 6 forward, 4 aft
- 24 torpedoes
- 1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun
- Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Sister ships
- ARA Santa Fe (S-21)
- USS Apogon
- USS Archerfish (SS-311)
- USS Atule
- USS Balao
- USS Bang
- USS Barbel (SS-316)
- USS Barbero
- USS Batfish (SS-310)
- USS Baya
- USS Becuna
- USS Bergall (SS-320)
- USS Besugo
- USS Billfish (SS-286)
- USS Blackfin
- USS Blanquillo (SS-323)
- USS Blenny
- USS Blower
- USS Blueback (SS-326)
- USS Boarfish
- USS Bowfin
- USS Brill
- USS Bugara
- USS Bullhead
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Aspro (SS-309) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Acedia (SS-309) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Unknown source — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons