USS Golet
Service
- as USS Golet30 November 1943 — 14 June 1944199 days of the war
- Name
- USS Golet
- Namesake
- Golet, an alternative name for the Dolly Varden trout
- Builder
- Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
- Laid down
- 27 January 1943
- Launched
- 1 August 1943
- Commissioned
- 30 November 1943
- Fate
- Sunk by Japanese vessels northwest of Honshū, 14 June 1944. All 82 crew lost (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
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
- 20.3 knots (37.5 km/h, 23.3 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Golet was a Gato-class diesel-electric submarine of the United States Navy. She was named for Golet. Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin laid her keel on 27 January 1943. She entered service on 30 November 1943, having been launched on 1 August 1943.
Her class ran to 76 ships. The class followed the Mackerel-class submarine and was succeeded by the Balao-class submarine.
The boat displaced 1,525 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 60. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 199 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 14 June 1944, at 41°04′N 141°31′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 252-cell Gould battery
- Armament
- 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft; 24 torpedoes)
- one 3 in/50 caliber deck gun
- two .30 cal (7.62 mm) machineguns
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 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
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Golet on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: US Navy — www.oneternalpatrol.com — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons