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USS Sterlet
United States Navy submarine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Sterlet (SS-392), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sterlet, a small sturgeon found in the Caspian Sea and its rivers, whose meat is considered delicious and whose eggs are one of the world's great delicacies, caviar.
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Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 14 July 1943[1] |
Launched | 27 October 1943[1] |
Commissioned | 4 March 1944[1] |
Decommissioned | 18 September 1948[1] |
Recommissioned | 26 August 1950[1] |
Decommissioned | 30 September 1968[1] |
Stricken | 1 October 1968[1] |
Fate | Sunk as a target, 31 January 1969[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Balao class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 6 in (94.95 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)[6] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[6] |
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