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USS Paddle
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USS Paddle (SS-263), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the paddlefish.
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Name | USS Paddle (SS-263) |
Namesake | Paddlefish |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 1 May 1942[1] |
Launched | 30 December 1942[1] |
Commissioned | 29 March 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | 1 February 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 31 August 1956[1] |
Decommissioned | 18 January 1957[1] |
Stricken | 30 June 1968[2] |
Fate | Transferred to Brazil unmodified, 18 January 1957[1] |
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Name | Riachuelo (S–15) |
Acquired | 18 January 1957[1] |
Stricken | March 1968 |
Fate | Sunk as a target around 30 June 1968[1] |
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Class and type | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | 1,525 tons (1,549 t) surfaced,[2] 2,424 tons (2,460 t) submerged[2] |
Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | 21 kn (39 km/h) surfaced,[5] 9 kn (17 km/h) submerged[5] |
Range | 11,000 nm @ 10 kn (20,000 km @ 19 km/h) surfaced[5] |
Endurance | 48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged,[5] 75 days on patrol |
Test depth | 300 ft (90 m)[5] |
Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[5] |
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