USS Searaven
Service
- as Searaven2 October 1939 — 11 December 19462,162 days of the war
- Name
- USS Searaven
- Namesake
- sea raven
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 9 August 1938
- Launched
- 21 June 1939
- Commissioned
- 2 October 1939
- Decommissioned
- 11 December 1946
- Struck
- 21 October 1948
- Fate
- Target for Operation Crossroads atomic bomb test, then sunk as a target off southern California on 11 September 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Length
- 94.49 m (310 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 59
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Searaven was a Sargo-class submarine diesel-electric submarine, operated by the United States Navy. She was named for sea raven. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine laid her keel on 9 August 1938. Launched on 21 June 1939, she entered service on 2 October 1939.
Her class ran to ten ships. 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). She carried a complement of 59.
Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,162 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 11 December 1946. She was struck from the register on 21 October 1948.
She was expended as a target on 11 September 1948. The wreck survives.
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 electrical generators, 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries, 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears
- two shafts, 5,400 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 deck gun
- four machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Searaven on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — This image has been extracted from another file — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons