USS Lagarto
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USS Lagarto (SS-371), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the lagarto, a lizard fish.
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USS Lagarto (SS-371) under way, probably in Lake Michigan during trials, c. late 1944. | |
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United States | |
Name | Lagarto |
Builder | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin[1] |
Laid down | 12 January 1944[1] |
Launched | 28 May 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 14 October 1944[1] |
Fate | Sunk by Japanese minelayer Hatsutaka in the Gulf of Siam, 4 May 1945. All 88 hands lost -no survivors[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 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[3] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[3] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[3] |
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