USS Sturgeon (SS-187)
USS Sturgeon (SS-187) off Mare Island, 1943. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Sturgeon |
| Namesake | Sturgeon |
| Builder | Mare Island Naval Shipyard |
| Laid down | 27 October 1936 |
| Launched | 15 March 1938 |
| Commissioned | 25 June 1938 |
| Decommissioned | 15 November 1945 |
| Stricken | 30 April 1948 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 12 June 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Salmon-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 308 ft 0 in (93.88 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft 1+1⁄4 in (7.957 m) |
| Draft | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed |
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| 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 |
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USS Sturgeon (SS-187), a Salmon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sturgeon. Her 1944 sinking of the Japanese troopship Toyama Maru, killing more than 5,000 Japanese, was one of the highest death tolls from the sinking of a single ship in history. Her 1942 sinking of the Montevideo Maru which, unknown to crew on the Sturgeon, was carrying over 1,000 POWs, was the worst maritime disaster in Australian history.