USS Tambor
Service
- as USS Tambor3 June 1940 — 10 December 19451,917 days of the war
- Name
- USS Tambor
- Builder
- Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 16 January 1939
- Launched
- 20 December 1939
- Commissioned
- 3 June 1940
- Decommissioned
- 10 December 1945
- Struck
- 1 September 1959
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 5 December 1959 however Periscope is preserved. (1959)
- Status
- Preserved
Specifications
- Length
- 93.57 m (307 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 20.4 knots (37.8 km/h, 23.5 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Tambor was a Tambor-class submarine diesel-electric submarine, operated by the United States Navy. Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut laid her keel on 16 January 1939. She entered service on 3 June 1940, having been launched on 20 December 1939.
Her class ran to eleven ships. The class followed the Sargo-class submarine and was succeeded by the Mackerel-class submarine.
She measured 93.6 m (307 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 20.4 knots, and she carried a complement of 60. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,917 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 10 December 1945. She was struck from the register on 1 September 1959.
She has been preserved on 5 December 1959.
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 electric 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
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Tambor on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — United States Federal Government — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons