USS Baya
Service
- 20 May 1944 — 30 October 1972470 days of the war
- Name
- USS Baya
- Builder
- Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 8 April 1943
- Launched
- 2 January 1944
- Commissioned
- 20 May 1944
- Decommissioned
- 14 May 1946
- Recommissioned
- 10 February 1948
- Struck
- 30 October 1972
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 12 October 1973 (1973)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,526 long tons (1,550 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,424 long tons (2,463 t)
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Speed
- 20.3 knots (37.5 km/h, 23.3 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 10
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Baya was a Balao-class submarine diesel-electric submarine built for the United States Navy. Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut laid her keel on 8 April 1943. Launched on 2 January 1944, she entered service on 20 May 1944.
111 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Gato-class submarine and was succeeded by the Tench-class submarine.
The boat displaced 1,526 long tons surfaced and 2,424 long tons submerged. She measured 94.8 m (311 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 20.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 10. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 470 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 14 May 1946. She recommissioned on 10 February 1948. She was struck from the register on 30 October 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 12 October 1973.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × General Motors Model 16-278A V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators
- 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
- 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears
- 2 × propellers
- 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced
- 2,740 shp (2.0 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 Aspro (SS-309)
- USS Atule
- USS Balao
- USS Bang
- USS Barbel (SS-316)
- USS Barbero
- USS Batfish (SS-310)
- 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 Baya on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.488.103.043 (cropped) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons