USS Tirante
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USS Tirante (SS-420), a Tench-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tirante, a silvery, elongated "cutlass fish" found in waters off Cuba. Her keel was laid down on 28 April 1944 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard of Kittery, Maine. She was launched on 9 August 1944 sponsored by Mrs. Ruth Maynard Sieglaff, wife of Commander William B. Sieglaff (prospective commander of PCU Tench), and commissioned on 6 November 1944 with Lieutenant Commander George L. Street III in command.
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Tirante (SS-420) at her launch from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Tirante |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 28 April 1944[1] |
Launched | 9 August 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 6 November 1944[1] |
Decommissioned | 20 July 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 26 November 1952[1] |
Decommissioned | 1 October 1973[1] |
Stricken | 1 October 1973[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 21 March 1974[2] |
General characteristics As completed | |
Class and type | Tench-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)[2] |
Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum[2] |
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Range | 11,000 nautical miles (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, 71 enlisted[6] |
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General characteristics (Guppy IIA) | |
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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