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United States Navy — Submarine SS-283

USS Tinosa (SS-283)

Gato-class diesel-electric submarine

USS Tinosa (SS-283)
Unknown author — Unknown source — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — SS-283 USS_Tinosa; https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08283.htm Tinosa (SS-283), broadside view, circa 1943-45, location unknown. US Navy photo courtesy of John Hummel.

Service

  1. United States Navy15 January 1943 — 2 December 1953961 days of the war
Full service history About 1,183 words
Gato-class diesel-electric submarine Particulars
Name
USS Tinosa
Pennant / hull number
SS-283
Builder
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Laid down
21 February 1942
Launched
7 October 1942
Commissioned
15 January 1943
Decommissioned
23 June 1949
Recommissioned
4 January 1952
Struck
1 September 1958
Fate
Scuttled off Hawaii November 1960 after being used as an anti-submarine warfare target (1960)
Status
Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced
1,525 long tons (1,549 t)
Displacement, submerged
2,424 long tons (2,463 t)
Length
94.79 m (311 ft)
Beam
8.23 m (27 ft)
Draught
5.18 m (17 ft)
Speed
21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
Range
10,799 nmi (20,000 km)
Complement
60
Main gun
76 mm (3 in)

The first Tinosa (SS-283) was laid down on 21 February 1942 at Vallejo, Calif., by the Mare Island Navy Yard; launched on 7 October 1942; sponsored by Mrs. William E. Molloy; and commissioned on 15 January 1943, Lt. Comdr. Lawrence Randall Daspit in command.

After preliminary operations, the submarine proceeded to Hawaii, arriving at Pearl Harbor on 16 April 1943. Over the next two years, she completed twelve war patrols in the Pacific and was credited with sinking 16 enemy ships, totaling 64,655 tons.

On her first war patrol, conducted from 3 May to 19 June 1943, Tinosa damaged three enemy ships in the waters east of Kyushu, Japan, while sustaining some depth-charge damage herself. After refitting at Midway, she got underway on 7 July to patrol the sea routes between Borneo and Truk. Handicapped by the faulty firing mechanism of her Mark 14 torpedoes, she damaged only a single tanker on her second patrol before returning to Hawaii on 4 August.

Continue to the full service history About 1,183 words

From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Tinosa I (SS-283)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 9-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 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun
  • Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

Sister ships

51 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from USS Tinosa (SS-283) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Service history reproduced verbatim from Tinosa I (SS-283) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
  • Photograph: Unknown author — Unknown source — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons