USS Conger
Service
- 14 February 1945 — 29 July 1963200 days of the war
- Name
- USS Conger
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 11 July 1944
- Launched
- 17 October 1944
- Commissioned
- 14 February 1945
- Decommissioned
- 29 July 1963
- Struck
- 1 August 1963
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 9 July 1964 (1964)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,570 long tons (1,595 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,414 long tons (2,453 t)
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 20.3 knots (37.5 km/h, 23.3 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 81
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Conger was a Tench-class diesel-electric submarine in service with the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine on 11 July 1944. Launched on 17 October 1944, she entered service on 14 February 1945.
Her class ran to 24 ships. The class followed the Balao-class submarine and was succeeded by the Barracuda class.
The boat displaced 1,570 long tons surfaced and 2,414 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 81. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 200 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 29 July 1963. She was struck from the register on 1 August 1963.
She was broken up for scrap on 9 July 1964.
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 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 10-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators
- 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
- 2 × low-speed direct-drive Elliott electric motors
- 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)
- 28 torpedoes
- 1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun
- Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Sister ships
- PNS Ghazi
- USS Amberjack (SS-522)
- USS Argonaut (SS-475)
- USS Cutlass
- USS Diablo
- USS Grampus (SS-523)
- USS Irex
- USS Medregal
- USS Odax
- USS Pickerel (SS-524)
- USS Quillback
- USS Remora
- USS Requin
- USS Runner (SS-476)
- USS Sea Leopard
- USS Tench
- USS Thornback
- USS Tigrone
- USS Tirante
- USS Toro
- USS Torsk
- USS Trutta
- USS Volador (SS-490)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Conger on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08477.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons