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USS Rock
Submarine of the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Rock (SS/SSR/AGSS-274), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the rockfish, a striped bass found in the Chesapeake Bay region and elsewhere along the United States East Coast.
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Builder | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin[1] |
Laid down | 23 December 1942[1] |
Launched | 20 June 1943[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. B. O. Wells |
Commissioned | 26 October 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | 1 May 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 12 October 1953[1] |
Decommissioned | 13 September 1969[1] |
Stricken | 13 September 1969[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 17 August 1972[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gato-class submarine diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 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 knots (19 km/h)[6] |
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Test depth | 300 ft (90 m)[6] |
Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[6] |
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