USS Capelin
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USS Capelin (SS-289), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the capelin, a small fish of the smelt family. She is credited with having sunk 3,127 gross register tons of shipping on her single war patrol.
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Name | Capelin |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 14 September 1942[1] |
Launched | 20 January 1943[1] |
Commissioned | 4 June 1943[1] |
Fate | Missing north of Sulawesi after 2 December 1943[2] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nm (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[6] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[6] |
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