USS Chub
Service
- as USS Chub (SS-329)21 October 1944 — 23 May 1948316 days of the war
- as TCG Gür (S 334)25 May 1948 — 12 December 1975
- Name
- USS Chub
- Builder
- Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 16 September 1943
- Launched
- 18 June 1944
- Commissioned
- 21 October 1944
- Decommissioned
- 23 May 1948
- Struck
- 28 May 1948
- Fate
- Returned to US custody and scrapped
- 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 Chub was a Balao-class submarine diesel-electric submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut on 16 September 1943. She entered service on 21 October 1944, having been launched on 18 June 1944.
She was one of 111 ships of her class. 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 served with the United States Navy as USS Chub (SS-329) until 23 May 1948. She then passed to the Turkish Navy, serving as TCG Gür (S 334) from 25 May 1948. She was in commission for 316 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 23 May 1948. She was struck from the register on 28 May 1948.
She was broken up for scrap.
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 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 Chub on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: USN photo courtesy of Sait Kucuk CPOS (Ret.), Turkish Navy. — Image in navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons