USS Croaker
Service
- as Croaker21 April 1944 — 2 April 1968499 days of the war
- Name
- USS Croaker
- Namesake
- Croaker, Fish
- Builder
- General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 1 April 1943
- Launched
- 19 December 1943
- Commissioned
- 21 April 1944
- Decommissioned
- 15 June 1946
- Recommissioned
- 7 May 1951
- Struck
- 20 December 1971
- Fate
- Museum ship at Groton, Connecticut on 27 June 1976, then to Buffalo, New York since 1988. (1976)
- Status
- Preserved
Specifications
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,525 long tons (1,549 t)
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Croaker was a Gato-class diesel-electric submarine in service with the United States Navy. The ship was named after Croaker. General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut laid her keel on 1 April 1943. She entered service on 21 April 1944, having been launched on 19 December 1943.
76 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Mackerel-class submarine and was succeeded by the Balao-class submarine.
The boat displaced 1,525 long tons submerged. She measured 94.8 m (311 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). She carried a complement of 60. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 499 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 June 1946. She recommissioned on 7 May 1951. She was struck from the register on 20 December 1971.
She has been preserved on 27 June 1976.
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 16-248 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 Cavalla (SS-244)
- USS Cero (SS-225)
- USS Cobia
- USS Cod
- USS Corvina
- 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 Croaker on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Unknown source — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons