USS Barracuda (SS-163)
V-boat V-1 composite direct-drive diesel and diesel-electric submarine
Service
- 1 October 1924 — 3 March 19452,010 days of the war
- Name
- USS Barracuda
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-163
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 20 October 1921
- Launched
- 17 July 1924
- Commissioned
- 1 October 1924
- Decommissioned
- 14 May 1937
- Struck
- 10 March 1945
- Fate
- Sold for breaking up, 16 November 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 2,119 long tons (2,153 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,506 long tons (2,546 t)
- Length
- 103.94 m (341 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Range
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 7
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Barracuda was a V-boat V-1 composite direct-drive diesel and diesel-electric submarine in service with the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number SS-163. Her keel was laid at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine on 20 October 1921. Launched on 17 July 1924, she entered service on 1 October 1924.
The boat displaced 2,119 long tons surfaced and 2,506 long tons submerged. She measured 103.9 m (341 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 21 knots, and she carried a complement of 7. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 2,010 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 14 May 1937. She was struck from the register on 10 March 1945.
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 × Busch-Sulzer direct-drive main diesel engines, 2250 hp each
- 2 × Busch-Sulzer auxiliary diesel engines, 1000 hp each, diesel-electric drive
- Auxiliary engines replaced with BuEng MAN engines 1940, main engines removed 1942-43 on conversion to a cargo submarine
- 2 × 60-cell Exide batteries
- 2 × Elliott electric motors, 1200 hp each
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 6 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- (four forward, two aft, twelve torpedoes)
- 1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/51 caliber deck gun
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Barracuda (SS-163) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons