USS Hardhead
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USS Hardhead (SS-365), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the hardhead, a fish of the croaker family.
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USS Hardhead (SS-365) sometime after May 1953. | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Hardhead |
Namesake | Hardhead |
Builder | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin[1] |
Laid down | 7 July 1943[1] |
Launched | 12 December 1943[1] |
Commissioned | 18 April 1944[1] |
Decommissioned | 10 May 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 6 February 1952[1] |
Decommissioned | 22 May 1952[1] |
Recommissioned | 24 March 1953[1] |
Decommissioned | 26 July 1972[1] |
Stricken | 26 July 1972[2] |
Identification | SS-365 |
Fate | Transferred to Greece, 26 July 1972[1] |
Greece | |
Name | Papanikolis |
Acquired | 26 July 1972 |
Stricken | 4 May 1993 |
Identification | S-114 |
Fate | Sold for scrap 1993 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[6] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[6] |
Armament |
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General characteristics (Guppy IIA) | |
Class and type | none |
Displacement | |
Length | 307 ft (93.6 m)[8] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.3 m)[8] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[8] |
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