USS Ronquil
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USS Ronquil (SS-396), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy named after the ronquil, a spiny-finned fish found along the northwest coast of North America. It has a single dorsal fin and a large mouth and resembles the tropical jawfish.
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USS Ronquil (SS-396) entering Pearl Harbor, c. 1944-45. | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Ronquil (SS-396) |
Namesake | Ronquil |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 9 September 1943[1] |
Launched | 27 January 1944[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. C. M. Elder |
Commissioned | 22 April 1944[1] |
Decommissioned | May 1952[1] |
Recommissioned | 16 January 1953[1] |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1971[1] |
Stricken | 1 July 1971[2] |
Fate | Transferred to Spain, 1 July 1971[1] |
Spain | |
Name | Isaac Peral (S-32) |
Namesake | Isaac Peral (1851–1895), Spanish naval officer |
Acquired | 1 July 1971 |
Decommissioned | 3 April 1984 |
Honors and awards | Six battle stars |
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 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] |
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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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