USS Shad (SS-235)
Sliding down the launching ways, Shad, backs into the waters of the Portsmouth Navy Yard. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down | 24 October 1941 |
| Launched | 15 April 1942 |
| Sponsored by | Priscilla Alden Dudley |
| Commissioned | 12 June 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 1947 |
| Stricken | 1 April 1960 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap 11 July 1960 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) maximum |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
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| Test depth | 300 ft (90 m) |
| Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted |
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USS Shad (SS-235), a Gato-class submarine, was the first submarine and second vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the shad, a fish of the herring family, common along coasts of the United States.
The second Shad was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard (in Kittery, Maine) on 24 October 1941. She was launched on 15 April 1942 (sponsored by Miss Priscilla Alden Dudley), and commissioned on 12 June 1942, with Lieutenant Commander Edgar J. MacGregor III (United States Naval Academy class of 1930) in command.