USS Barracuda (SS-163)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Barracuda.
USS Barracuda (SF-4/SS-163), lead ship of her class and first of the "V-boats," was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the barracuda (after USS F-2).
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Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 20 October 1921[1] |
Launched | 17 July 1924[1] |
Commissioned | 1 October 1924[1] |
Decommissioned | 14 May 1937[1] |
Commissioned | 5 September 1940[1] |
Decommissioned | 3 March 1945[1] |
Stricken | 10 March 1945[1] |
Fate | Sold for breaking up, 16 November 1945[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | V-1 (Barracuda)-class composite direct-drive diesel and diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 341 ft 6 in (104.09 m)[3] |
Beam | 27 feet 6+5⁄8 inches (8.398 m)[3] |
Draft | 15 ft 2 in (4.62 m)[3] |
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Endurance | 10 hours at 5 knots (9 km/h)[3] |
Test depth | 200 ft (60 m)[3] |
Complement | 7 officers, 11 petty officers, 69 enlisted[3] |
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