USS Cabezon
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USS Cabezon (SS-334) was a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy, named for the cabezon, a saltwater fish of sculpin family inhabiting the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans (cabezon means "big head" in Spanish).
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United States | |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 18 November 1943[1] |
Launched | 27 August 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 30 December 1944[1] |
Decommissioned | 24 October 1953[1] |
Stricken | 15 May 1970[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 28 December 1971[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Balao class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 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)[3] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[3] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[3] |
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