USS Toro
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USS Toro (SS-422), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the toro, a name applied to various fish including the cowfish, the catalufa, and the cavallo.
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United States | |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 27 May 1944[1] |
Launched | 23 August 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 8 December 1944[1] |
Decommissioned | 2 February 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 13 May 1947[1] |
Decommissioned | 11 March 1963[1] |
Stricken | 1 April 1963[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, April 1965[1] |
General characteristics | |
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 (5.2 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | |
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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