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- Code Number:
- MYNV09P15_13B
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USS Sterlet (SS-392), Balao-class submarine, 1950s, USN, United States Navy
- Builder: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Laid down: 14/07/1943 Launched: 27/10/1943 Commissioned: 4/03/1944 Decommissioned: 18/09/1948 Recommissioned: 26/08/1950 Decommissioned: 30/09/1968 Struck: 1/10/1968 Fate: Sunk as a target, 31/01/1969 Class & type: Balao class diesel-electric submarine Displacement: 1,526 tons (1,550 t) surfaced 2,391 tons (2,429 t) submerged Length: 94.95 meters (311 feet 6 in) Beam: 8.31 meters (27 feet 3 in) Draft: 5.13 meters (16 feet 10 in) maximum Propulsion: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8- 10-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators 2 126-cell Sargo batteries 4 high-speed Elliott electric motors with reduction gears 2x propellers 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged Speed: 20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged Range: 20,000 km (11,000 nautical miles) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) Endurance: 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged 75 days on patrol Test depth: 120 meters (400 feet) Complement: 10 officers, 70?71 enlisted Armament: 10 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft) 24 torpedoes 1 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
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- Charles Hemphill
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