USS Queenfish (SS-393)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Queenfish.
USS Queenfish (SS/AGSS-393), was a Balao-class submarine, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the queenfish, a small food fish found off the Pacific coast of North America.
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United States | |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 27 July 1943[1] |
Launched | 30 November 1943[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Robert A. Theobald |
Commissioned | 11 March 1944[1] |
Decommissioned | 1 March 1963[1] |
Stricken | 1 March 1963[1] |
Fate | Sunk as a target, 14 August 1963[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 6 in (94.95 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 nmi (20,000 km; 13,000 mi) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)[6] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[6] |
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