Summary
USS Turbot (SS-427), a Balao-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the turbot, a large, brown and white flatfish, valued as a food.
 The partially completed hulk of USS Turbot.
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | Turbot |
| Namesake | The turbot |
| Builder | Cramp Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Laid down | 13 November 1943 |
| Launched | as incomplete hulk 12 April 1946 |
| Completed | Never |
| Commissioned | Never |
| Stricken | 1958 |
| Fate | Construction contract cancelled 12 August 1945 |
| Notes | Served as testing hulk; survived as such into the 1980s |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
| Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | |
| Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km; 13,000 mi) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)[1] |
| Endurance | 48 hours at 2 kn (3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph) submerged,[1] 75 days on patrol |
| Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[1] |
| Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[1] |
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Turbot's keel was laid down on 13 November 1943 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company, but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 12 August 1945. Her partially completed hulk was launched on 12 April 1946 and, in 1950, was assigned to the Naval Ship Research and Development Center at Annapolis, Maryland, where it was used for research and development in connection with the control and reduction of machinery noise in submarines.[6]
Turbot was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 1958, and sold for scrapping to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, at Sparrow's Point, Maryland; however, rather than being scrapped, she remained tied up to a U.S. Navy pier in Carr's Creek at the North Severn Naval Station in Maryland, where she continued to be used for testing well into the 1980s. Some material was removed from her hulk for use in other submarines, including her six torpedo air flasks, which were installed in the submarine USS Pampanito (SS-383) in San Francisco, California.[6]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305-311
- ^ a b c d e f Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 275–282. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
- ^ a b c d e Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 270–280. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9. OCLC 24010356.
- ^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 p. 261
- ^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
- ^ a b Anonymous, "The Case of the Missing Hull Numbers," Submarine Force Museum, 4 August 2014, 8:00 a.m. EDT Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.