USS Picuda
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USS Picuda (SS-382), a Balao-class submarine, was originally named Obispo, making her the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the obispo, a spotted sting ray.
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Port side view of the Picuda (SS-382), after refit and conversion at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard NH, somewhere in the Atlantic, 1954. | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Picuda (SS-382) |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 15 March 1943[1] |
Launched | 12 July 1943[1] |
Commissioned | 16 October 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | 25 September 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 19 June 1953[1] |
Decommissioned | 1 October 1972[1] |
Stricken | 1 November 1974[2] |
Fate | Transferred to Spain, 1 October 1972[1] |
Spain | |
Name | Narciso Monturiol (S-33) |
Acquired | 1 October 1972 |
Stricken | 30 April 1977 |
General characteristics (World War II) | |
Class and type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 6 in (94.95 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 nm (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[6] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[6] |
Armament |
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General characteristics (Guppy IIA) | |
Class and type | none |
Displacement | |
Length | 307 ft (94 m)[8] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)[8] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[8] |
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