USS Pickerel (SS-524)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Pickerel and Italian submarine Primo Longobardo.
USS Pickerel (SS-524), a Tench-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for a young or small pike.
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USS Pickerel. The three distinctive shark-fin domes are the PUFFS sonar. | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Pickerel (SS-524) |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 8 February 1944[1] |
Launched | 15 December 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 4 April 1949[1] |
Decommissioned | 18 August 1972[1] |
Stricken | 5 December 1977[2] |
Fate | Transferred to Italy, 18 August 1972[1] |
History | |
Italy | |
Name | Primo Longobardo (S 501) |
Acquired | 18 August 1972 |
Stricken | Either 31 January 1980 or 31 May 1981 |
General characteristics (Completed as GUPPY II) | |
Class and type | Tench-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 322.2 ft (98.2 m)[4] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)[4] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[4] |
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Range | 15,000 nm (28,000 km) surfaced at 11 knots (20 km/h)[4] |
Endurance | 48 hours at 4 knots (7 km/h) submerged[4] |
Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement |
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Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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General characteristics (Guppy III) | |
Displacement | |
Length | 321 ft (98 m)[4] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)[4] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[4] |
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Range | 15,900 nm (29,400 km) surfaced at 8.5 knots (16 km/h)[4] |
Endurance | 36 hours at 3 knots (6 km/h) submerged[4] |
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