USS Seawolf (SS-197)
Seawolf underway | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Seawolf |
| Namesake | Atlantic wolffish |
| Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down | 27 September 1938 |
| Launched | 15 August 1939 |
| Commissioned | 1 December 1939 |
| Stricken | 20 January 1945 |
| Fate | Probably sunk by friendly fire from USS Richard M. Rowell off Morotai on 3 October 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sargo-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | 1,450 long tons (1,470 t) standard, surfaced, 2,350 long tons (2,390 t) submerged |
| Length | 310 ft 6 in (94.64 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft 10 in (8.18 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft 7+1⁄2 in (5.067 m) |
| Propulsion | 4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators, 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries, 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears, two shafts, 5,400 shp (4,000 kW) surfaced, 2,740 shp (2,040 kW) submerged |
| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced, 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged |
| Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Endurance | 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged |
| Test depth | 250 ft (76 m) |
| Complement | 5 officers, 54 enlisted |
| Armament | 8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, four aft; 24 torpedoes {Mark 14s as designed, mixed with Mark 10s or mines during World War Two}), 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal deck gun, 4 × machine guns |
USS Seawolf (SS-197), a Sargo-class submarine, was the second submarine of the United States Navy named for the seawolf.