USS Peto (SS-265)
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| History | |
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 United States
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| Builder: | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin |
| Laid down: | 15 June 1941 |
| Launched: | 30 April 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 21 November 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 December 1942 |
| Recommissioned: | January 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 June 1946 |
| Struck: | 1 August 1960 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap on 29 November 1960 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,525 tons (1,549 t) surfaced, 2,424 tons (2,460 t) submerged |
| 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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| Speed: | 21 kn (39 km/h) surfaced, 9 kn (17 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) @ 10 kn (19 km/h) aurfaced |
| Endurance: | 48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged, 75 days on patrol |
| Test depth: | 300 ft (91 m) |
| Complement: | 6 officers, 54 enlisted |
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USS Peto (SS-265), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the peto, a sharp-nosed tropical fish of the mackerel family.
Peto was laid down on 18 June 1941 by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin; launched on 30 April 1942; sponsored by Mrs. E. A. Lofquist; and commissioned on 21 November 1942, Lieutenant Commander William T. Nelson in command.
Late in December 1942, Peto decommissioned, was loaded on a barge, and departed Manitowoc for New Orleans, Louisiana, the first submarine to traverse the mid-western waterways to reach New Orleans and the sea from the building yards. This was done because the Chain of Rocks Waterway as well as some of the passages near Chicago were only 9 feet deep, whereas the minimum draft of the submarine was 12 feet. The ship recommissioned, completed fitting out and shakedown, sailed for the Panama Canal and arrived Brisbane, Australia 14 March 1943.
Peto departed Brisbane for her first war patrol on 2 April. The submarine reconnoitered Greenwich Island for shipping on the 13th without finding any targets. That night she proceeded toward the equator to cover the Truk-Kavieng route, arriving on station the next day. A south-bound, Truk-Rabaul convoy came into view on the morning of 17 April, consisting of two destroyers, two medium freighters, and one small auxiliary. However, before Peto attacked, the trailing destroyer detected the submarine and forced her to dive. She withstood nine depth charges without damage.
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