USS Spadefish (SS-411)
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Builder | Mare Island Naval Shipyard |
| Laid down | 27 May 1943 |
| Launched | 8 January 1944 |
| Commissioned | 9 March 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 3 May 1946 |
| Stricken | 1 April 1967 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 17 October 1969 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Balao class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 10 in (95.05 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 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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The first USS Spadefish (SS/AGSS-411), a Balao-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the spadefish. Although she was commissioned late in the war and spent only one year in the Pacific war zone, she was able to run up a record of 88,091 tons in 21 ships and numerous trawlers sunk.