USS Bonita (SS-165)
V-boat V-3 composite direct-drive diesel and diesel-electric submarine
Service
- 22 May 1926 — 3 March 19452,010 days of the war
- Name
- USS Bonita
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-165
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 16 November 1921
- Launched
- 9 June 1925
- Commissioned
- 22 May 1926
- Decommissioned
- 4 June 1937
- Struck
- 10 March 1945
- Fate
- Sold for breaking up, 4 October 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,119 long tons (2,153 t)
- Length
- 103.94 m (341 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Range
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 7
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Bonita was a V-boat V-3 composite direct-drive diesel and diesel-electric submarine, operated by the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number SS-165. Her keel was laid at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine on 16 November 1921. Launched on 9 June 1925, she entered service on 22 May 1926.
The boat displaced 2,119 long tons submerged. She measured 103.9 m (341 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). 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 4 June 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), 12 torpedoes
- 1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/51 caliber deck gun
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Bonita (SS-165) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h56000/h56514c.htm http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h56000/h56514.jpg — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons