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USS Volador (SS-490)
Submarine of the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Volador and Italian submarine Gianfranco Gazzana Priaroggia.
USS Volador (SS-490), a Tench-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the volador.
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Name | USS Volador (SS-490) |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 15 June 1945[1] |
Launched | 21 May 1948[1] |
Commissioned | 1 October 1948[1] |
Decommissioned | 18 August 1972[1] |
Stricken | 5 December 1977[2] |
Fate | Transferred to Italy, 18 August 1972; sold to Italy 5 December 1977[1] |
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Name | Gianfranco Gazzana Priaroggia (S 502) |
Acquired | 18 August 1972 |
Stricken | 1981 |
General characteristics (Completed as GUPPY II) | |
Class and type | Tench-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 307 ft (94 m)[4] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)[4] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[4] |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Range | 15,000 nm (28,000 km) surfaced at 11 knots (20 km/h)[4] |
Endurance | 48 hours at 4 knots (7 km/h) submerged[4] |
Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement |
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Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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General characteristics (Guppy III) | |
Displacement | |
Length | 321 ft (97.8 m)[4] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (7.4 m)[4] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[4] |
Speed |
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Range | 15,900 nm (29,400 km) surfaced at 8.5 knots (16 km/h)[4] |
Endurance | 36 hours at 3 knots (6 km/h) submerged[4] |
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