Name: USS Sailfish
Namesake: Sailfish
Ordered: 10 March 1951
Builder: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Laid down: 8 December 1953
Launched: 8 September 1955
Commissioned: 14 April 1956, as SSR-572
Designation: SSR-572 (Radar Picket)
Decommissioned: 29 September 1978
Reclassified: SS-572 (Attack submarine), 3 February 1961
Struck: 30 September 1978
Fate: Sunk as target, May 2007
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
Class and type: Sailfish-class submarine
Displacement:
2,030 long tons (2,063 t) light
2,334 long tons (2,371 t) surfaced
3,168 long tons (3,219 t) submerged
Length: 350 ft 6 in (110 m)
Beam: 29 ft 1 in (8.86 m)
Draft: 16 ft 4 in (5 m)
Propulsion: Diesel-electric, 4- Fairbanks Morse 38ND 8-1/8, 2 Main Motors, 2 screws
Speed:
20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph) surfaced
15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) submerged
Complement: 95 officers and men
Armament: 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
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