Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
United States Navy — Submarine

USS Chub

Balao-class submarine diesel-electric submarine

USS Chub
USN photo courtesy of Sait Kucuk CPOS (Ret.), Turkish Navy. — Image in navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate Starboard bow view of Gür (D-3) after snorkel overhaul off the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 3 Sept 1954.

Service

  1. United States Navy as USS Chub (SS-329)21 October 1944 — 23 May 1948316 days of the war
  2. Turkish Navy as TCG Gür (S 334)25 May 1948 — 12 December 1975
Balao-class submarine diesel-electric submarine Particulars
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

86 more in the class

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