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USS Queenfish (SS-393)

Queenfish, post WW II. She became the model for boats that did not receive GUPPY or other special conversions.
History
Builder: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Laid down: 27 July 1943
Launched: 30 November 1943
Commissioned: 11 March 1944
Decommissioned: 1 March 1963
Struck: 1 March 1963
Fate: Sunk as a target, 14 August 1963
General characteristics
Class and type: Balao class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:
  • 1,526 tons (1,550 t) surfaced
  • 2,391 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:
Speed:
  • 20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced
  • 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged
Range: 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Endurance:
  • 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged
  • 75 days on patrol
Test depth: 400 ft (120 m)
Complement: 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted
Armament:

USS Queenfish (SS/AGSS-393), a Balao-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the queenfish, a small food fish found off the Pacific coast of North America.

The first Queenfish was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, 27 July 1943; launched 30 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Robert A. Theobald; and commissioned 11 March 1944, Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Loughlin in command.

After shakedown off the east coast and further training in Hawaiian waters, Queenfish set out on her first patrol 4 August 1944, in Luzon Strait. She joined "Ed's Eradicators", a wolf pack which also included Barb (SS-220) and Tunny (SS-282). The wolfpack was under the command of E.R. Swinburne who rode aboard Eugene B. Fluckey's "Barb"

Tunny had to withdraw after being damaged by air attack, but on 31 August, Queenfish made her first kill, 4,700-ton tanker Chiyoda Maru. On 9 September she scored twice more, on 7,097-ton passenger-cargo ship Toyooka Maru and 3,054-ton transport Manshu Maru.

ComSubPac ordered the Eradicators to assist another wolf pack in rescuing Allied POWs who had been on transports in another convoy. The Japanese had picked up their own survivors from the wreckage, but they made no attempt to save any survivors from among the 2,100 British and Australian POWs embarked in the transports. The submarines managed to get 127 out of the water. An approaching typhoon terminated the hunt and the patrol. Queenfish put into Majuro for refit 3 October.


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