USS Sailfish (SS-192)
Sargo-class submarine composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine
Service
- as USS Squalus1 March 1939 — 27 October 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS Sailfish
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-192
- Namesake
- Squalus
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
- Laid down
- 18 October 1937
- Launched
- 14 September 1938
- Commissioned
- 1 March 1939
- Decommissioned
- 15 November 1939
- Struck
- 30 April 1948
- Fate
- Sold for scrap
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,450 long tons (1,473 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,350 long tons (2,388 t)
- Length
- 94.49 m (310 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 59
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
A large gamefish inhabiting tropical seas, related to the swordfish, but possessing scales and a large sail-like dorsal fin.
The first Sailfish (SS-192), a diesel-powered attack submarine, was laid down on 18 October 1937 as Squalus by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H.; launched on 14 September 1938; sponsored by Mrs. Thomas C. Hart; and commissioned on 1 March 1939, Lt. 0. F. Naquin in command.
On 12 May, Squalus began a series of test dives off Portsmouth. After successfully completing 18 dives, she went down again off the Isle of Shoals on the morning of 23 May. Failure of the main induction valve caused the flooding of her after engine room, and the submarine sank stern first to the bottom in 60 fathoms of water.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Sailfish I (SS-192)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines (two hydraulic-drive, two driving electrical generators)
- 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
- 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears
- 2 × shafts
- Power
- 5500 hp surfaced
- 2740 hp submerged
- Armament
- 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, four aft; 24 Mark 14 torpedoes)
- 1 × 3 in/50 cal deck gun
- 4 × machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Sailfish (SS-192) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Sailfish I (SS-192) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons