USS Tarpon (SS-175)
Service
- 12 March 1936 — 15 November 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS Tarpon
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-175
- Builder
- Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 22 December 1933
- Launched
- 4 September 1935
- Commissioned
- 12 March 1936
- Decommissioned
- 15 November 1945
- Struck
- 5 September 1956
- Fate
- Sold for breaking up, 8 June 1957; foundered off Cape Hatteras, 26 August 1957 (1957)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,316 long tons (1,337 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,968 long tons (2,000 t)
- Length
- 90.83 m (298 ft) OA
- Beam
- 7.62 m (25 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h, 22.4 mph)
- Range
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 54
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
The second Tarpon (SS-175) was laid down on 22 December 1933 at Groton, Conn., by the Electric Boat Co.; launched on 4 September 1935; sponsored by Miss Eleanore Katherine Roosevelt, daughter of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt; and commissioned on 12 March 1936, Lt. Leo L. Pace in command.
Tarpon operated out of San Diego and Pearl Harbor with Submarine Division (SubDiv) 13 for several years and was then assigned to SubDiv 14. In October 1939, SubDiv 14 was transferred to the Philippines, augmenting the six old S-boats at Manila. All submarines there were then reorganized into Submarine Squadron 5. In October 1941, SubDivs 15 and 16 were transferred from Pearl Harbor to Manila, increasing the Asiatic force to 29 submarines. They were divided into five divisions, and Tarpon was assigned to SubDiv 203.
Two days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, 18 submarines departed the Philippines to begin their first war patrol. Tarpon was assigned an area off southeastern Luzon. Since all the ships that she definitely identified as Japanese presented unfavorable firing angles, the submarine ended her patrol on 11 January 1942 at Darwin, Australia, without having fired a torpedo.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Tarpon II (SS-175)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- as built
- 4 × Winton Model 16-201A 16-cylinder two-cycle diesel engines, 1300 hp each, driving electrical generators through reduction gears
- 2 × 120-cell Exide VL31B batteries
- 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors, total 2085 hp
- three General Motors six-cylinder four-cycle 6-228 auxiliary diesels
- re-engined 1942
- 4 × GM two-cycle Model 12-278A diesels, 1200 hp each
- two shafts
- 4,300 shp (3.2 MW) surfaced
- 2,085 shp (1.6 MW) submerged
- Armament
- 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, two aft, 16 torpedoes)
- (two external bow torpedo tubes added 1942; total 18 torpedoes)
- 1 × 4 in/50 caliber deck gun
- two .30 cal (7.62 mm) machineguns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Tarpon (SS-175) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Tarpon II (SS-175) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
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