USS Pompon
Service
- 17 March 1943 — 1 April 1960900 days of the war
- Name
- USS Pompon
- Builder
- Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
- Laid down
- 26 November 1941
- Launched
- 15 August 1942
- Commissioned
- 17 March 1943
- Decommissioned
- 11 May 1946
- Recommissioned
- 15 June 1953
- Struck
- 1 April 1960
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 22 December 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Pompon was a Gato-class diesel-electric submarine in service with the United States Navy. Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin laid her keel on 26 November 1941. Launched on 15 August 1942, she entered service on 17 March 1943.
76 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Mackerel-class submarine and was succeeded by the Balao-class submarine.
She measured 94.8 m (311 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 21 knots, and she carried a complement of 60. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 900 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 11 May 1946. She recommissioned on 15 June 1953. She was struck from the register on 1 April 1960.
She was broken up for scrap on 22 December 1960.
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 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 Pompon on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: USN photo # 7019-44, courtesy of Darryl Baker. — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08267.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons