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USS Snook (SS-279)
Submarine of the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Snook.
USS Snook (SS-279), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the common snook, an Atlantic marine fish that is bluish-gray above and silvery below a black lateral line.
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Name | USS Snook |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 17 April 1942[1] |
Launched | 15 August 1942[1] |
Commissioned | 24 October 1942[1] |
Fate | Missing since 8 April 1945 east of Taiwan[2] |
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Class and type | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
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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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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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