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USS Menhaden (SS-377)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Menhaden.
The second USS Menhaden (SS-377) was United States Navy Balao-class submarine. Launched in 1944, she operated out of Pearl Harbor until 1946, then continued in use out of various ports in the Pacific until the 1970s. She was then decommissioned and re-fitted as a remotely controlled, unmanned acoustic test vehicle known as the "Yellow Submarine", until she was scrapped in 1988.
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Name | USS Menhaden |
Namesake | Menhaden |
Builder | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin[1] |
Laid down | 21 June 1944[1] |
Launched | 20 December 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 22 June 1945[1] |
Decommissioned | 31 May 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 7 August 1951[1] |
Decommissioned | 13 August 1952[1] |
Recommissioned | 6 March 1953[1] |
Decommissioned | 13 August 1971[1] |
Stricken | 15 August 1973[1] |
Fate | Tethered underwater target in Keyport, Washington from 1976;[2] sold for scrap, 1988[1] |
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Class and type | Balao-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 | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
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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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Class and type | none |
Displacement | |
Length | 307 ft (93.6 m)[6] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.3 m)[6] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[6] |
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