USS Sawfish
Service
- as Sawfish26 August 1942 — 20 June 19461,103 days of the war
- Name
- USS Sawfish
- Namesake
- Sawfish
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 20 January 1942
- Launched
- 23 June 1942
- Commissioned
- 26 August 1942
- Decommissioned
- 20 June 1946
- Struck
- 1 April 1960
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 2 December 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,525 long tons (1,549 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,424 long tons (2,463 t)
- 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
- 10,799 nmi (20,000 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Sawfish was a Gato-class submarine diesel-electric submarine, operated by the United States Navy. She was named for Sawfish. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine laid her keel on 20 January 1942. She entered service on 26 August 1942, having been launched on 23 June 1942.
Her class ran to 76 ships. The class followed the Mackerel-class submarine and was succeeded by the Balao-class submarine.
The boat displaced 1,525 long tons surfaced and 2,424 long tons submerged. 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 1,103 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 20 June 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 April 1960.
She was broken up for scrap on 2 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 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 9-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical 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 Sawfish on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Unknown source — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons