USS Apogon
USS Apogon (SS-308) heads towards dock at Submarine Base 5. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down | 9 December 1942 |
| Launched | 10 March 1943 |
| Commissioned | 16 July 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 1 October 1945 |
| Stricken | 25 February 1947 |
| Fate | Used as a target for the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb test on 25 July 1946, and sunk |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Balao class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | 1,526 tons (1,550 t) surfaced, 2,391 tons (2,429 t) submerged |
| Length | 311 ft 6 in (94.95 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 20.25 kn (37.50 km/h) surfaced, 8.75 kn (16.21 km/h) submerged |
| Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced @ 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Endurance | 48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged, 75 days on patrol |
| Test depth | 400 ft (120 m) |
| Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted |
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USS Apogon (SS-308), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the apogons, a genus of cardinalfishes found in tropical and subtropical waters. The original name planned for the ship was Abadejo, but the name was changed on 24 September 1942 before the keel was laid down.