USS Grayling (SS-209)
Service
- 1 March 1941 — 9 September 1943922 days of the war
- Name
- USS Grayling
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-209
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 15 December 1939
- Launched
- 29 November 1940
- Commissioned
- 1 March 1941
- Fate
- Lost off Manila around 9 September 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Length
- 93.57 m (307 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 20.4 knots (37.8 km/h, 23.5 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
The fourth Grayling (SS-209) was laid down at the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H., 15 December 1939; launched 4 September 1940; sponsored by Mrs. Herbert F. Leary; and commissioned 1 March 1941, Lt. Comdr. E. Olson in command.
After conducting tests and sea trials, she was called upon 20 June 1941 to assist in the search for submarine 0-9, which had failed to surface after a practice dive off Isle of Shoals. 0-9 was subsequently discovered on the bottom, but rescue efforts failed; Grayling participated 22 June in the memorial services for those lost.
Joining the Atlantic Fleet, Grayling sailed on shakedown cruise 4 August to Morehead City, N.C., and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, returning to Portsmouth 29 August. After final acceptance, she departed 17 November, armed at Newport, B.I., and sailed for duty with the Pacific Fleet. Grayling transited the Panama Canal 3 December and moored at San Diego 10 December.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Grayling IV (SS-209)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 9-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical 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
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Grayling (SS-209) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Grayling IV (SS-209) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons