USS Mackerel (SS-204)
Service
- as Mackerel31 March 1941 — 9 November 19451,619 days of the war
- Name
- USS Mackerel
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-204
- Namesake
- Mackerel
- Builder
- Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 6 October 1939
- Launched
- 28 September 1940
- Commissioned
- 31 March 1941
- Decommissioned
- 9 November 1945
- Struck
- 28 November 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 24 April 1947 (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 825 long tons (838 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,190 long tons (1,209 t)
- Length
- 74.07 m (243 ft)
- Beam
- 6.71 m (22 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 16 knots (29.6 km/h, 18.4 mph)
- Range
- 6,500 nmi (12,038 km)
- Complement
- 37
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Mackerel was a Mackerel-class submarine, operated by the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number SS-204. She was named for Mackerel. Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut laid her keel on 6 October 1939. Launched on 28 September 1940, she entered service on 31 March 1941.
Two ships of the class were built. The class followed the Tambor-class submarine and was succeeded by the Gato-class submarine.
The boat displaced 825 long tons surfaced and 1,190 long tons submerged. She measured 74.1 m (243 ft) long with a beam of 6.7 m (22 ft). Her designed speed was 16 knots, and she carried a complement of 37. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,619 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 9 November 1945. She was struck from the register on 28 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 24 April 1947.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × Electric Boat direct drive diesel engines
- 2 × 60-cell Sargo batteries
- 2 × Electro Dynamic electric motors
- 2 shafts
- 1680 bhp surfaced
- 1500 bhp submerged
- Armament
- 6 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- (four forward, two aft)
- 12 torpedoes
- 1 × 3 inch (76 mm)/50 caliber deck gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Mackerel (SS-204) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author or not provided — U.S. National Archives and Records Administration — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons