USS Requin
Service
- as USS Requin28 April 1945 — 2 December 1968127 days of the war
- Name
- USS Requin
- Namesake
- French word for shark
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 24 August 1944
- Launched
- 1 January 1945
- Commissioned
- 28 April 1945
- Decommissioned
- 2 December 1968
- Struck
- 20 December 1971
- Fate
- Museum ship
Tampa 1972-1986
Pittsburgh 1990-present - Status
- Preserved
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,570 long tons (1,595 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,414 long tons (2,453 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
- 81
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Requin was a Tench-class diesel-electric submarine built for the United States Navy. She was named for French word for shark. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine laid her keel on 24 August 1944. Launched on 1 January 1945, she entered service on 28 April 1945.
She was one of 24 ships of her class. The class followed the Balao-class submarine and was succeeded by the Barracuda class.
The boat displaced 1,570 long tons surfaced and 2,414 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 81. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 127 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 2 December 1968. She was struck from the register on 20 December 1971.
She has been preserved.
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 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 10-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators
- 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
- 2 × low-speed direct-drive Elliott electric motors
- 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)
- 28 torpedoes
- 1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun
- Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Sister ships
- PNS Ghazi
- USS Amberjack (SS-522)
- USS Argonaut (SS-475)
- USS Conger
- USS Cutlass
- USS Diablo
- USS Grampus (SS-523)
- USS Irex
- USS Medregal
- USS Odax
- USS Pickerel (SS-524)
- USS Quillback
- USS Remora
- USS Runner (SS-476)
- USS Sea Leopard
- USS Tench
- USS Thornback
- USS Tigrone
- USS Tirante
- USS Toro
- USS Torsk
- USS Trutta
- USS Volador (SS-490)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Requin on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: PootisHeavy — Own work — CC BY 3.0 — Wikimedia Commons