Submarine of the United States
For other ships with the same name, see
USS Tinosa .
History
United States
Builder Mare Island Naval Shipyard [1]
Laid down 21 February 1942[1]
Launched 7 October 1942[1]
Commissioned 15 January 1943[1]
Decommissioned 23 June 1949[1]
Recommissioned 4 January 1952[1]
Decommissioned 2 December 1953[1]
Stricken 1 September 1958[1]
Fate Scuttled off Hawaii November 1960 after being used as an anti-submarine warfare target[1] [2]
General characteristics
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]
Propulsion
Speed
21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced[3]
9 knots (17 km/h) submerged[3]
Range 11,000 NM (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[3]
Endurance
48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged[3]
75 days on patrol
Test depth 300 ft (90 m)[3]
Complement 6 officers, 54 enlisted[3]
Armament
USS Tinosa (SS-283) , a Gato -class submarine , was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tinosa .
^ a b c d e f g h i Friedman, Norman (1995). U.S. Submarines Through 1945: An Illustrated Design History . Annapolis, Maryland : United States Naval Institute . pp. 285–304. ISBN 1-55750-263-3 .
^ a b c d e f g Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants . Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press. pp. 271–273. ISBN 0-313-26202-0 .
^ a b c d e f U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305-311
^ a b c d e Bauer, K. Jack ; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants . Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press. pp. 270–280. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9 .
^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 261–263
^ a b c U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311