USS Pampanito (SS-383)

USS Pampanito (SS-383)

USS Pampanito, with SS Jeremiah O'Brien moored astern
History
Builder:	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Laid down:	15 March 1943
Launched:	12 July 1943
Sponsored by:	Mrs. James Wolfender
Commissioned:	6 November 1943
Decommissioned:	15 December 1945
Reclassified:	AGSS-383, 6 November 1962
Struck:	20 December 1971
Status:	Museum ship in San Francisco since 21 November 1975
General characteristics
Class and type:	Balao-class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:	1,526 long tons (1,550 t) surfaced 2,391 long tons (2,429 t) submerged
Length:	311 ft 6 in (94.95 m)
Beam:	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft:	16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum
Propulsion:	4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 10-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors with reduction gears two propellers 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
Speed:	20.25 knots (37.50 km/h; 23.30 mph) surfaced 8.75 knots (16.21 km/h; 10.07 mph) submerged
Range:	11,000 nautical miles (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:	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 Pampanito
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Location	Fisherman's Wharf-Pier 45, San Francisco
Coordinates	37°48′36″N 122°24′59″W / 37.81000°N 122.41639°W / 37.81000; -122.41639Coordinates: 37°48′36″N 122°24′59″W / 37.81000°N 122.41639°W / 37.81000; -122.41639
Website	www.maritime.org/pamphome.htm
NRHP Reference #	86000089
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	14 January 1986
Designated NHL	14 January 1986

USS Pampanito (SS-383/AGSS-383), a Balao-class submarine, was a United States Navy ship, the third one named for the pompano fish. She completed six war patrols from 1944 to 1945 and served as a Naval Reserve Training ship from 1960 to 1971. She is now a National Historic Landmark, preserved as a memorial and museum ship in the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association located at Fisherman's Wharf.

Pampanito's keel was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, on 15 March 1943. She was launched on 12 July 1943, sponsored by Mrs. James Wolfender, and commissioned on 6 November 1943, with Lieutenant Commander Charles B. Jackson, Jr. in command.

After shakedown off New London, Connecticut, Pampanito transited the Panama Canal and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 14 February 1944. Her first war patrol, from 15 March to 2 May, was conducted in the southwest approaches to Saipan and Guam. She served on lifeguard duty south of Yap, then scored two torpedo hits on a destroyer before sailing for Midway Island and Pearl Harbor for refit and repairs to a hull badly damaged by depth charges.