USS Seal (SS-183)
USS Seal | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Seal |
| Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down | 25 May 1936 |
| Launched | 25 August 1937 |
| Commissioned | 30 April 1938 |
| Decommissioned | 15 November 1945 |
| Stricken | 1 May 1956 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 6 May 1957 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Salmon-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | 1,435 long tons (1,458 t) standard, surfaced, 2,198 long tons (2,233 t) submerged |
| Length | 308 ft 0 in (93.88 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft 1+1⁄4 in (7.957 m) |
| Draft | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
| Propulsion | 4 × Hooven-Owens-Rentschler (H.O.R.) 9-cylinder diesel engines (two hydraulic-drive, two driving electrical generators), 2 × 120-cell batteries, 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors with reduction gears, two shafts, 5,500 shp (4.1 MW) surfaced, 2,660 shp (2.0 MW) submerged |
| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced, 9 knots (17 km/h) submerged |
| Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) @ 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Endurance | 48 hours @ 2 knots (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 |
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USS Seal (SS-183), a Salmon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seal, a sea mammal valued for its skin and oil.