USS Bluefish (SS-222)
Bluefish slides down the ways at Groton, 21 February 1943. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down | 5 June 1942 |
| Launched | 21 February 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Robert Y. Menzie |
| Commissioned | 24 May 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 12 February 1947 |
| Recommissioned | 7 January 1952 |
| Decommissioned | 20 November 1953 |
| Stricken | 1 September 1958 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 8 June 1960 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) maximum |
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| Range | 11,000 nautical miles (13,000 mi; 20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
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| Test depth | 300 ft (90 m) |
| Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted (peacetime) |
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USS Bluefish (SS-222), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bluefish. Between 9 September 1943 and 29 July 1945 she completed nine war patrols. Her operating area extended from the Netherlands East Indies to the waters south of Honshū. According to the notoriously unreliable JANAC accounting, Bluefish sank 12 Japanese ships totaling 50,839 tons.