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Namesake: | Drum, Fish |
Ordered: | 12 June 1940 |
Builder: | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
Laid down: | 11 September 1940 |
Launched: | 12 May 1941 |
Sponsored by: | Mrs. Thomas Holcomb |
Commissioned: | 1 November 1941 |
Decommissioned: | 16 February 1946 |
Struck: | 30 June 1968 |
Status: | Museum ship at Mobile, Alabama |
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Class and type: | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine |
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Length: | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
Draft: | 17 ft (5.2 m) maximum |
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Range: | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km; 13,000 mi) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Endurance: | 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph) submerged, 75 days on patrol |
Test depth: | 300 ft (91 m) |
Complement: | 8 officers, 75 enlisted |
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USS Drum (submarine)
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Location | Mobile, Alabama |
Coordinates | 30°40′52″N 88°1′0″W / 30.68111°N 88.01667°WCoordinates: 30°40′52″N 88°1′0″W / 30.68111°N 88.01667°W |
Built | 1941 |
Architect | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard |
NRHP Reference # | 86000086 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | 14 January 1986 |
Designated NHL | 14 January 1986 |
USS Drum (SS-228) is a Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship named after the drum, any of various types of fish capable of making a drumming sound. Drum is on display as a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama, at Battleship Memorial Park.
Drum was laid down on 11 September 1940 at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine. She was launched on 12 May 1941, sponsored by Mrs. Beatrice M. Holcomb, wife of Major General Thomas Holcomb, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. The boat was commissioned on 1 November 1941, with Commander Robert H. Rice in command.
Drum was the twelfth of the Gato class but was the first completed and the first to enter combat in World War II. She is the oldest of her class still in existence.
Drum arrived at Pearl Harbor from the East Coast on 1 April 1942, and after a voyage to Midway Atoll, cleared Pearl Harbor on 14 April on her first war patrol. Cruising off the coast of Japan, she sank the Japanese seaplane tender Mizuho on 2 May and afterwards endured a 16-hour depth charge attack consisting of 31 depth charges. Later that month she sank three cargo ships before returning to Pearl Harbor on 12 June to refit.