USS Dogfish
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Dogfish (SS-350) |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 22 June 1944[1] |
Launched | 27 October 1945[1] |
Commissioned | 29 April 1946[1] |
Stricken | 28 July 1972[1] |
Fate | Sold to Brazil, 28 July 1972[1] |
Brazil | |
Name | Guanabara (S-10) |
Acquired | 28 July 1972 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1983 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) [3] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) [3] |
Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[3] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nm (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[2] |
Endurance |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[2] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[2] |
Armament |
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General characteristics (Guppy II) | |
Class and type | none |
Displacement | |
Length | 307 ft (94 m) [5] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) [5] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) [5] |
Propulsion | |
Speed |
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Range | 15,000 nm (28,000 km) surfaced at 11 knots (20 km/h)[5] |
Endurance | 48 hours at 4 knots (7.4 km/h) submerged[5] |
Complement |
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Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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USS Dogfish (SS-350), a Balao-class submarine, was the only vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the dogfish.
Her keel was laid down on 22 June 1944 by the
Dogfish sailed out of New London, Connecticut, on local duties and cruised to the Caribbean Sea and Bermuda to conduct training. She was overhauled and extensively modernized at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard from August 1947 to April 1948, and then served in experimental projects as well as normal operations at New London. From 31 October to 19 November 1948 she took part in large-scale fleet exercises ranging from the waters off Florida to Davis Strait between Labrador and Greenland.
She cruised to Scotland, England, and France between 4 February and 3 April 1949 and joined in a convoy exercise off Cape Hatteras in February and March 1952, and operated along the east coast and in the Caribbean Sea during the next three years.
Dogfish sailed from New London on 1 March 1955 for her first tour with the
Transfer to Brazil
Dogfish was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and sold to Brazil on 28 July 1972. She served the Brazilian Navy as Guanabara (S-10) until being deleted in 1983.
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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