USS Tench
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USS Tench (SS/AGSS-417), the lead ship of her class of submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tench. Her keel was laid down on 1 April 1944 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was launched on 7 July 1944, sponsored by Claudia Alta Johnson, the wife of Rep. Lyndon Baines Johnson, and commissioned on 6 October 1944 with Commander William B. "Barney" Sieglaff[10][11] in command.
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Tench after her GUPPY conversion. | |
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United States | |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 1 April 1944[1] |
Launched | 7 July 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 6 October 1944[1] |
Decommissioned | January 1947[1] |
Recommissioned | October 1950[1] |
Decommissioned | 8 May 1970[1] |
Stricken | 15 August 1973[1] |
Fate | Sold to Peru for spare parts, 16 September 1976[1] |
General characteristics (As completed) | |
Class and type | Tench-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m) [2] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) [2] |
Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum [2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h) [6] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m) [6] |
Complement | 10 officers, 71 enlisted [6] |
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General characteristics (Guppy IA) | |
Displacement | |
Length | 307 ft 7 in (93.75 m)[9] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)[9] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[9] |
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Range | 17,000 nmi (31,000 km) surfaced at 11 kn (20 km/h) [9] |
Endurance | 36 hours at 3 knots (6 km/h) submerged [9] |
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