United States Navy — Submarine
SS-244
USS Cavalla (SS-244)
Service
- as Cavalla29 February 1944 — 3 June 1968552 days of the war
Gato-class diesel-electric submarine
Particulars
- Name
- USS Cavalla
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-244
- Namesake
- Cavalla
- Builder
- Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 4 March 1943
- Launched
- 14 November 1943
- Commissioned
- 29 February 1944
- Decommissioned
- 16 March 1946
- Recommissioned
- 10 April 1951
- Struck
- 30 December 1969
- Fate
- Museum ship at Galveston, Texas as of 21 January 1971 (1971)
- Status
- Preserved
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,525 long tons (1,549 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,424 long tons (2,463 t)
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
A salt water fish of the pompano family inhabiting waters off the eastern coast of the Americas from Cape Cod to Rio de la Plata.
Cavalla (SS-244) was launched 14 November 1943 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.; sponsored by Mrs. M. Comstock; and commissioned 29 February 1944, Lieutenant Commander H. J. Kossler in command.
Departing New London 11 April 1944, Cavalla arrived at Pearl Harbor 9 May for voyage repairs and training. On 31 May 1944 she put to sea, bound for distant, enemy-held waters.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Cavalla (SS-244)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 Diesel engines driving electric generators
- 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
- 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears
- two 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 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun
- Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Sister ships
- USS Albacore (SS-218)
- USS Amberjack (SS-219)
- USS Angler
- USS Barb (SS-220)
- USS Bashaw
- USS Blackfish
- USS Bluefish (SS-222)
- USS Bluegill
- USS Bonefish (SS-223)
- USS Bream
- USS Cero (SS-225)
- USS Cobia
- USS Cod
- USS Corvina
- USS Croaker
- USS Dace (SS-247)
- USS Darter (SS-227)
- USS Dorado (SS-248)
- USS Drum (SS-228)
- USS Finback (SS-230)
- USS Flasher (SS-249)
- USS Flier
- USS Flounder
- USS Flying Fish (SS-229)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Cavalla (SS-244) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Cavalla (SS-244) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: USN photo courtesy of http://ussubvetsofwwii.org . Photo i.d. courtesy of Chuck Norris ETC(SS), Retired. — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08244.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons