USS Pintado (SS-387)
Service
- 1 January 1944 — 6 March 1946610 days of the war
- Name
- USS Pintado
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-387
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 7 May 1943
- Launched
- 15 September 1943
- Commissioned
- 1 January 1944
- Decommissioned
- 6 March 1946
- Struck
- 1 March 1967
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 19 February 1969, conning tower at the National Museum of the Pacific War (1969)
- Status
- Preserved
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,526 long tons (1,550 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,391 long tons (2,429 t)
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Speed
- 20.3 knots (37.5 km/h, 23.3 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 10
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
A large mackerel-like fish, whose elongated spots suggested the Spanish word meaning painted as it is named, found along the Florida coast and in the West Indies.
The first Pintado (SS-387) was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 7 May 1943; launched 15 September 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Antonio Prince; and commissioned 1 January 1944, Lt. Comdr. Bernard A. Clarey in command.
Pintado departed Portsmouth 17 February 1944 for torpedo trials at Newport, training out of New London, and antisubmarine warfare tactics and experiments with torpedo developments out of Key West. She sailed for the Pacific 31 March, transited the Panama Canal, and arrived Pearl Harbor 23 April.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Pintado I (SS-387)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
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
- 4 × high-speed Elliott 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 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun
- Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Sister ships
- ARA Santa Fe (S-21)
- USS Apogon
- USS Archerfish (SS-311)
- USS Aspro (SS-309)
- USS Atule
- USS Balao
- USS Bang
- USS Barbel (SS-316)
- USS Barbero
- USS Batfish (SS-310)
- USS Baya
- USS Becuna
- USS Bergall (SS-320)
- USS Besugo
- USS Billfish (SS-286)
- USS Blackfin
- USS Blanquillo (SS-323)
- USS Blenny
- USS Blower
- USS Blueback (SS-326)
- USS Boarfish
- USS Bowfin
- USS Brill
- USS Bugara
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Pintado (SS-387) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Pintado I (SS-387) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons