USS Tautog (SS-199)
Service
- 3 July 1940 — 8 December 19451,887 days of the war
- Name
- USS Tautog
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-199
- Builder
- Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 1 March 1939
- Launched
- 27 January 1940
- Commissioned
- 3 July 1940
- Decommissioned
- 8 December 1945
- Struck
- 1 September 1959
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 1 July 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,370 long tons (2,408 t)
- 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)
Named for a small edible sport fish, also called blackfish or oysterfish, found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. The adult is black, with greenish-gray blotches.
The first Tautog (SS-199) was laid down on 1 March 1939 at Groton, Conn., by the Electric Boat Co.; launched on 27 January 1940; sponsored by Mrs. Richard S. Edwards; and commissioned on 3 July 1940, Lt. Joseph H. Willingham in command.
Following brief training in Long Island Sound, Tautog got underway for the Caribbean on her shakedown cruise which lasted from 6 September to 11 November. She returned to New London and operated from that base until early February 1941 when she was ordered to the Virgin Islands.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Tautog I (SS-199)). 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 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 Tautog (SS-199) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Tautog I (SS-199) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
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