USS Goldring

History
United States
Name:	USS Goldring
Namesake:	The goldring, a fish of the Mississippi River
Builder:	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut (proposed)
Laid down:	Date Unknown
Launched:	Never
Fate:	Construction contract cancelled 29 July 1944
General characteristics
Class and type:	Balao class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:	1,526 long tons (1,550 t) surfaced, 2,414 long tons (2,453 t) submerged
Length:	311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)
Beam:	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft:	16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum
Propulsion:	4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears two propellers 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
Speed:	20.25 kn (37.50 km/h) surfaced, 8.75 kn (16.21 km/h) submerged
Range:	11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced @ 10 kn (19 km/h)
Endurance:	48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged, 75 days on patrol
Test depth:	400 ft (120 m)
Complement:	10 officers, 70–71 enlisted
Armament:	10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 forward, 4 aft 24 torpedoes 1 × 4-inch (102 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

USS Goldring (SS-360), would have been a Balao-class submarine, the only submarine of the United States Navy to be named for the goldring, an edible fish of the Mississippi River. Her keel was laid down at the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut, but construction was cancelled on 29 July 1944.

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