USS Saury
Sargo-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine
Service
- 3 April 1939 — 22 June 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS Saury
- Builder
- Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 28 June 1937
- Launched
- 20 August 1938
- Commissioned
- 3 April 1939
- Decommissioned
- 22 June 1946
- Struck
- 19 July 1946
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 19 May 1947 (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- 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)
USS Saury was a Sargo-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine, operated by the United States Navy. Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut laid her keel on 28 June 1937. Launched on 20 August 1938, she entered service on 3 April 1939.
She was one of ten ships of her class. The class followed the Salmon-class submarine and was succeeded by the Tambor-class submarine.
She measured 94.5 m (310 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 21 knots, and she carried a complement of 59.
Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 22 June 1946. She was struck from the register on 19 July 1946.
She was broken up for scrap on 19 May 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
- 4 × Hooven-Owens-Rentschler (H.O.R.) 9-cylinder diesel engines (two hydraulic-drive, two driving electrical generators)
- 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
- 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears
- two shafts
- 5,500 shp (4.1 MW) surfaced
- 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
- Armament
- 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- (four forward, four aft)
- 24 torpedoes
- 1 × 3 in / 50 caliber deck gun
- four machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Saury on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: US Navy photographer — http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/n60000/n67722.jpg — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons