USS Bullhead
Service
- as Bullhead4 December 1944 — 6 August 1945245 days of the war
- Name
- USS Bullhead
- Builder
- Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 21 October 1943
- Launched
- 16 July 1944
- Commissioned
- 4 December 1944
- Fate
- Sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Java Sea, 6 August 1945
By aircraft (1945) - Status
- Wreck
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 Bullhead was a Balao-class submarine diesel-electric submarine in service with the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut on 21 October 1943. Launched on 16 July 1944, she entered service on 4 December 1944.
Her class ran to 111 ships. 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 one 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 245 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 6 August 1945 by aircraft. 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
- 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 (six forward, four aft; 24 torpedoes)
- As built
- 1 x 5 in/25 caliber deck gun
- 1 x 40 mm Bofors antiaircraft cannon
- 1 x 20 mm Oerlikon antiaircraft cannon
- July 1945
- 2 x 5 in/25 caliber deck guns
- 2 x 40 mm Bofors antiaircraft cannons
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 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
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Bullhead on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Unknown source — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons