USS Hawkbill (SS-366)
Hawkbill (SS-366), launches sideways into the Manitowoc River, 9 January 1944. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Hawkbill (SS-366) |
| Builder | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, Wisconsin |
| Laid down | 7 August 1943 |
| Launched | 9 January 1944 |
| Commissioned | 17 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 20 September 1946 |
| Recommissioned | 1953 |
| Decommissioned | 21 April 1953 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Netherlands, 21 April 1953, sold to the Netherlands, 20 February 1970 |
| Stricken | 20 February 1970 |
| Netherlands | |
| Name | HNLMS Zeeleeuw (S803) |
| Acquired | 21 April 1953 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 24 November 1970 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Balao class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
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| Test depth | 400 ft (120 m) |
| Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted |
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USS Hawkbill (SS-366), a Balao-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the hawksbill, a large sea turtle (the "-s-" was inadvertently dropped at commissioning.).