USS Snapper (SS-185)
Salmon-class submarine composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine
Service
- as Snapper15 December 1937 — 15 November 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS Snapper
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-185
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 23 July 1936
- Launched
- 24 August 1937
- Commissioned
- 15 December 1937
- Decommissioned
- 15 November 1945
- Struck
- 30 April 1948
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 18 May 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Length
- 93.88 m (308 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 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)
The first and third Snappers, submarines, were named for the fish, the second retained the name she carried at the time of her acquisition.
The third Snapper (SS-185) was laid down by the Portsmouth (N.H.) Navy Yard on 23 July 1936; launched on 24 August 1937; sponsored by Mrs. Harold R. Stark, wife of Rear Admiral Stark, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance; and commissioned on 15 December 1937, Lt. F. O. Johnson in command.
On 10 May 1938, Snapper departed Portsmouth for her shakedown cruise; visited Cuba, the Canal Zone, Peru, and Chile; and returned to Portsmouth on 15 July. There she conducted final acceptance trials and underwent post-shakedown overhaul.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Snapper III (SS-185)). 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 × 120-cell batteries
- 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors with reduction gears
- two shafts
- 5,500 shp (4.1 MW) surfaced
- 2,660 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 Snapper (SS-185) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Snapper III (SS-185) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
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