USS Escolar
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USS Escolar (SS-294), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the escolar.
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USS Escolar circa June 1944. | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Escolar |
Namesake | Escolar |
Builder | Cramp Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[1] |
Yard number | 549 |
Laid down | 10 June 1942[1] |
Launched | 18 April 1943[1] |
Commissioned | 2 June 1944[1] |
Fate | Probably mined in the Yellow Sea on 17 October 1944[2] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m) [2] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) [2] |
Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 20.25 knots (37.50 km/h) surfaced,[6] 8.75 knots (16.21 km/h) submerged[6] |
Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h) surfaced[6] |
Endurance | 48 hours at 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged,[6] 75 days on patrol |
Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[6] |
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