USS Conger
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USS Conger (SS/AGSS-477), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the conger, an eel found in warm seas at moderate depths, common to both coasts of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 11 July 1944[1] |
Launched | 17 October 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 14 February 1945[1] |
Decommissioned | 29 July 1963[1] |
Stricken | 1 August 1963[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 9 July 1964[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tench-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)[2] |
Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum[2] |
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Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[6] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement | 10 officers, 71 enlisted[6] |
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