USS Stickleback
Service
- as USS Stickleback29 March 1945 — 29 May 1958158 days of the war
- Name
- USS Stickleback
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-415
- Builder
- Mare Island Naval Shipyard
- Laid down
- 1 March 1944
- Launched
- 1 January 1945
- Commissioned
- 29 March 1945
- Decommissioned
- 26 June 1946
- Recommissioned
- 6 September 1951
- Fate
- Sunk in collision with USS Silverstein (DE-534) off Oahu 29 May 1958
By collision (1958) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications — World War II
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,526 long tons (1,550 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,424 long tons (2,463 t)
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 4.88 m (16 ft)
- Speed
- 20.3 knots (37.5 km/h, 23.3 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 10
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Stickleback (SS-415) was laid down on 1 March 1944 at Vallejo, Calif., by the Mare Island Navy Yard; launched on 1 January 1945; sponsored by Mrs. John O. R. Coll; and commissioned on 29 March 1945, Cmdr. Lawrence G. Bernard in command.
Stickleback completed outfitting on 21 May 1945 and proceeded to San Diego, Calif. Assigned to Submarine Squadron (SubRon) 44, she held her shakedown cruise and multiple training exercises off the California coast from 28 May–10 June, after which she moored at Mare Island for the next twelve days.
On 25 June 1945, Stickleback stood out for Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii. She arrived in the Hawaiian Islands six days later on 1 July. After three days of post voyage repairs, the submarine conducted training exercises from 6–18 July.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Stickleback (SS-415)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
World War II
- Propulsion
- 4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 10-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 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun
- Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Guppy IIA
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,848 long tons (1,878 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,440 long tons (2,479 t)
- Length
- 93.57 m (307 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 17 knots (31.5 km/h, 19.6 mph)
- Propulsion
- Snorkel added
- One diesel engine and generator removed
- Batteries upgraded to Sargo II
- Armament
- 10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- (six forward, four aft)
- all guns removed
Sister ships
- ARA Santa Fe (S-21)
- USS Apogon
- USS Archerfish (SS-311)
- USS Aspro (SS-309)
- USS Atule
- USS Balao
- USS Bang
- USS Barbel (SS-316)
- USS Barbero
- USS Batfish (SS-310)
- USS Baya
- USS Becuna
- USS Bergall (SS-320)
- USS Besugo
- USS Billfish (SS-286)
- USS Blackfin
- USS Blanquillo (SS-323)
- USS Blenny
- USS Blower
- USS Blueback (SS-326)
- USS Boarfish
- USS Bowfin
- USS Brill
- USS Bugara
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Stickleback on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Stickleback (SS-415) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons