USS Snapper (SS-185)

History
Builder:	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Laid down:	23 July 1936
Launched:	24 August 1937
Commissioned:	15 December 1937
Decommissioned:	15 November 1945
Struck:	30 April 1948
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 18 May 1948
General characteristics
Class and type:	Salmon-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:	1,435 long tons (1,458 t) standard, surfaced 2,198 long tons (2,233 t) submerged
Length:	308 ft 0 in (93.88 m)
Beam:	26 ft 1 1⁄4 in (7.957 m)
Draft:	15 ft 8 in (4.78 m)
Propulsion:	4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines (two hydraulic-drive, two driving electrical generators) 2 × 120-cell batteries 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors with reduction gears two shafts 5,500 shp (4.1 MW) surfaced 2,660 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced 9 knots (17 km/h) submerged
Range:	11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Endurance:	48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged
Test depth:	250 ft (76 m)
Complement:	5 officers, 54 enlisted
Armament:	8 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes  (four forward, four aft)  24 torpedoes 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun four machine guns

USS Snapper (SS-185), a Salmon-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy of the name and the second to be named for the snapper, any of numerous carnivorous, bass-like fishes, esteemed as food and as game fishes. Her keel was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard on 23 July 1936. She was launched on 24 August 1937, sponsored by Mrs. Katharine R. Stark, wife of Rear Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, and commissioned on 16 December 1937 with Lieutenant F. O. Johnson in command.

On 10 May 1938, Snapper departed Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for her shakedown cruise, visited Cuba, the Panama Canal Zone, Peru, and Chile, and returned to Portsmouth on 16 July. There, she conducted final acceptance trials and underwent post-shakedown overhaul.

On 3 October, Snapper was assigned to Submarine Squadron (SubRon) 3 based at Balboa, Canal Zone, where she participated in training and fleet exercises until 15 March 1939, when she set sail for repairs at the Portsmouth Navy Yard. Departing Portsmouth on 9 May, she stopped at New London, Connecticut, and then got underway for the West Coast, arriving at San Diego, California, on 2 June. On 1 July, the submarine set sail for Pearl Harbor and maneuvers in the Hawaiian area, followed by overhaul at the Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California, from 1 December 1939 to 1 March 1940.

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