USS Dolphin (SS-169)
USS Dolphin underway on the surface. | |
| Class overview | |
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| Name | Dolphin -class submarine |
| Preceded by | Narwhal class |
| Succeeded by | Cachalot class |
| History | |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Dolphin |
| Namesake | Dolphin |
| Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down | 14 June 1930 |
| Launched | 6 March 1932 |
| Commissioned | 1 June 1932 |
| Decommissioned | 2 October 1945 |
| Stricken | 24 October 1945 |
| Honors & awards | 2 × battle stars |
| Fate | Sold for breaking up, 26 August 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | V-7 (Dolphin)-class composite direct-drive diesel and diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 319 ft 3 in (97.31 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 11 in (8.51 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) surfaced, 8 kn (9.2 mph; 15 km/h) submerged; 8.7 kn (10.0 mph; 16.1 km/h) submerged, service, 1939 |
| Range | 4,900 nmi (9,100 km; 5,600 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph), 18,780 nmi (21,610 mi; 34,780 km) at 10 kn with fuel in main ballast tanks |
| Endurance | 10 hours at 5 kn (5.8 mph; 9.3 km/h) |
| Test depth | 250 ft (76 m) |
| Complement | 7 officers, 56 enlisted |
| Armament |
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USS Dolphin (SF-10/SC-3/SS-169), a submarine and one of the "V-boats", was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for that aquatic mammal. She also bore the name V-7 and the classifications SF-10 and SC-3 prior to her commissioning. She was launched on 6 March 1932 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, sponsored by Mrs. E.D. Toland, and commissioned on 1 June 1932.