USS Tiburon (SS-529)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Dorado.
History
United States
Name: USS Tiburon
Namesake: The tiburon, a shark
Builder: Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts (proposed)
Laid down: Never
Fate: Construction contract cancelled 29 July 1944
General characteristics
Class and type: Tench-class diesel-electric submarine [1]
Displacement:
  • 1,570 tons (1,595 t) surfaced
  • 2,416 tons (2,455 t) submerged
Length: 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m)
Beam: 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)
Draft: 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum
Propulsion:
Speed:
  • 20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced
  • 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged
Range: 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Endurance:
  • 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged
  • 75 days on patrol
Test depth: 400 ft (120 m)
Complement: 10 officers, 71 enlisted
Armament:

USS Tiburon (SS-529), a cancelled Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tiburon, a large voracious shark found in the Caribbean Sea and along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Central America. Her construction by the Boston Navy Yard at Boston, Massachusetts, was authorized on 19 July 1940, but was cancelled on 29 July 1944.

References

  1. Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 280–282. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 275–282. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9.
  3. U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 261–263
  4. 1 2 3 U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/29/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.