USS Kraken
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USS Kraken (SS-370), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the kraken, a legendary sea monster believed to haunt the coasts of Norway.
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United States | |
Name | USS Kraken (SS-370) |
Builder | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin[1] |
Laid down | 13 December 1943[1] |
Launched | 30 April 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 8 September 1944[1] |
Decommissioned | 4 May 1948[1] |
Recommissioned | 4 July 1959[2][1] |
Decommissioned | 24 October 1959[1] |
Stricken | 1 November 1974[3] |
Fate | Transferred to Spain, 24 October 1959,[3] sold to Spain, 1 November 1974[1] |
Spain | |
Name | Almirante García de los Reyes (S-31) |
Commissioned | 25 October 1959 |
Decommissioned | 16 September 1974 |
Recommissioned | 1 September 1975 |
Decommissioned | April 1981 |
Stricken | 1 April 1982 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Balao class diesel-electric submarine[3] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[3] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[3] |
Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[3] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[4] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[4] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[4] |
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Kraken commissioned in September 1944 and saw action during the last year of World War II, serving in the Pacific Theater and making four war patrols. In 1946 she was placed in reserve.
In 1959 Kraken was transferred to the Spanish Navy as Almirante García de los Reyes. She was scrapped in 1982.