USS Sawfish
USS Sawfish (SS-276), probably off Hunter's Point Shipyard near San Francisco, California, following an overhaul in late 1943–early 1944. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Sawfish |
| Namesake | Sawfish |
| Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down | 20 January 1942 |
| Launched | 23 June 1942 |
| Sponsored by | Hattie Wyatt Caraway |
| Commissioned | 26 August 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 20 June 1946 |
| Stricken | 1 April 1960 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 2 December 1960 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 11,000 NM (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
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| Test depth | 300 ft (90 m) |
| Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted |
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USS Sawfish (SS-276), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the sawfish, a viviparous ray which has a long flat snout with a row of toothlike structures along each edge. It is found principally in the mouths of tropical American and African rivers.