USS Sawfish (SS-276)
USS Sawfish (SS-276), probably off Hunter's Point Shipyard near San Francisco CA., following an overhaul in late 1943-early 1944.
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| Name: | Sawfish |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down: | 20 January 1942 |
| Launched: | 23 June 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 26 August 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 June 1946 |
| Struck: | 1 April 1960 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 2 December 1960 |
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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 0 in (5.18 m) maximum |
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| Range: | 11,000 NM (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
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| Test depth: | 300 ft (90 m) |
| Complement: | 6 officers, 54 enlisted |
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USS Sawfish (SS-276), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the sawfish, a viviparous ray which has a long flat snout with a row of toothlike structures along each edge. It is found principally in the mouths of tropical American and African rivers.
Sawfish (SS-276) was laid down on 20 January 1942 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine; launched on 23 June 1942; sponsored by Hattie Wyatt Caraway, the first woman to be elected to the United States Senate; and commissioned on 26 August 1942, Lt. Comdr. Eugene T. Sands in command.
After shakedown—off Portsmouth, in Narragansett Bay, and en route to the Panama Canal—the new submarine arrived at Pearl Harbor on 21 January 1943. Ten days later, she got underway for the first of her 10 war patrols.
Sawfish proceeded to waters off southwestern Japan where she attacked several targets and concluded that she had sunk or damaged some. However, they turned out to be two neutral Soviet cargo ships, Ilmen and Kola. A careful study of Japanese and American records after the war did not confirm any other sinkings on Sawfish's first war patrol, which ended when she reached Midway on 25 March.
The submarine departed Midway on 15 April and headed for Japan. On 5 May off the coast of Honshū, she sank the converted gunboat, Hakkai Maru. A fortnight later, she stalked an enemy task force but lost her quarry in heavy swells. She returned to Pearl Harbor on 6 June.
Underway again on the last day of the month, Sawfish set course for the East China Sea. On the night of 21 July, she attacked convoy Hi-3 of nine ships and concluded that she had scored several hits. However, postwar assessment of records was unable to confirm any kills during this attack or during her operations for the next five days.
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