USS Pompon
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Not to be confused with USS Pompano or USS Pampanito.
USS Pompon (SS/SSR-267), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the pompon, an American fish of the Anisot family.
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United States | |
Builder | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin[1] |
Laid down | 26 November 1941[1] |
Launched | 15 August 1942[1] |
Commissioned | 17 March 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | 11 May 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 15 June 1953[1] |
Decommissioned | 1 April 1960[1] |
Stricken | 1 April 1960[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 22 December 1960[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gato-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 | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[6] |
Endurance |
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Test depth | 300 ft (90 m)[6] |
Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[6] |
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