USS Cero (SS-225)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Cero.
USS Cero (SS-225), a Gato-class submarine, was the first submarine and second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the cero.
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United States | |
Name | USS Cero |
Namesake | Cero mackerel |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 24 August 1942[1] |
Launched | 4 April 1943[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. D. E. Barbey |
Commissioned | 4 July 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | 8 June 1946[1] |
Badge | |
Commissioned | 4 February 1952[1] |
Decommissioned | 23 December 1953[1] |
Stricken | 30 June 1967[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, October 1970[2] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gato-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 | 17 ft (5.2 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (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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