USS Sabalo (SS-302)
Sabalo (SS-302) after conversion to a "Fleet Snorkel" type, post-1952. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Sabalo |
| Namesake | Sabalo, alternative name for the Atlantic tarpon |
| Builder | Cramp Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia |
| Yard number | 557 |
| Laid down | 5 June 1943 |
| Launched | 4 June 1944 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Martha C. Oman |
| Commissioned | 19 June 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 7 August 1946 |
| Recommissioned | June 1951 |
| Decommissioned | 1 July 1971 |
| Stricken | 1 July 1971 |
| Fate | Sunk as a target, 15 February 1973 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Balao class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum |
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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 Sabalo (SS-302), a Balao-class submarine, was the first submarine and second ship of the United States Navy to be named sabalo, another name for the Atlantic tarpon, a large, silvery game fish of the herring group, found in the warmer parts of the Western Atlantic.