USS Sealion (SS-195)
USS Sealion (SS-195) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Builder | General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down | 30 June 1938 |
| Launched | 25 May 1939 |
| Commissioned | 27 November 1939 |
| Fate | Scuttled at Cavite on 25 December 1941 after being damaged by Japanese aircraft on 10 December 1941 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sargo-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | 1,450 long tons (1,470 t) standard, surfaced, 2,350 tons (2,388 t) submerged |
| Length | 310 ft 6 in (94.64 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft 10 in (8.18 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft 7+1⁄2 in (5.067 m) |
| Propulsion | 4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators, 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries, 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears, two shafts, 5,200 shp (4.1 MW) surfaced, 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged |
| Speed | 21 kn (39 km/h) surfaced, 8.75 kn (16.21 km/h) submerged |
| Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) @ 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Endurance | 48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged |
| Test depth | 250 ft (76 m) |
| Complement | 5 officers, 54 enlisted |
| Armament | 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, four aft; 24 torpedoes), 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal deck gun, four machine guns |
USS Sealion (SS-195), a Sargo-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea lion, any of several large, eared seals native to the Pacific. The first American submarine victim of enemy action in World War II was the USS Sealion