USS Walrus (SS-431)

USS Walrus (SS-431)
USS Walrus (SS-431)
Name:	USS Walrus
Namesake:	The walrus
Builder:	Cramp Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (proposed)
Laid down:	Never
Fate:	Construction contract cancelled 29 July 1944
General characteristics
Class & type:	Balao class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:	1,526 long tons (1,550 t) surfaced, 2,414 long tons (2,453 t) submerged
Length:	311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)
Beam:	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft:	16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum
Propulsion:	4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators; 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries; 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears; two propellers ; 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced; 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged;
Speed:	20.25 kn (37.50 km/h) surfaced, 8.75 kn (16.21 km/h) submerged
Range:	11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced @ 10 kn (19 km/h)
Endurance:	48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) 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;

For other ships of the same name, see USS Walrus.

USS Walrus (SS-431), a proposed United States Navy Balao-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the walrus. Her construction by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was authorized but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 29 July 1944.

The name USS Walrus was used for a fictional U.S. Navy submarine in Edward L. Beach's 1955 novel Run Silent, Run Deep.

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↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 275–280. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9.
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[Register_275–280-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 275–280. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9.

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USS Walrus (SS-431)

Career (United States)
Name:	USS Walrus
Namesake:	The walrus
Builder:	Cramp Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (proposed)
Laid down:	Never
Fate:	Construction contract cancelled 29 July 1944

General characteristics
Class & type:	Balao class diesel-electric submarine^[1]
Displacement:	1,526 long tons (1,550 t) surfaced,^[1] 2,414 long tons (2,453 t) submerged^[1]
Length:	311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)^[1]
Beam:	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)^[1]
Draft:	16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum^[1]
Propulsion:	4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators^[2]^[3] 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries^[4] 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears^[2] two propellers ^[2] 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced^[2] 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged^[2]
Speed:	20.25 kn (37.50 km/h) surfaced,^[5] 8.75 kn (16.21 km/h) submerged^[5]
Range:	11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced @ 10 kn (19 km/h)^[5]
Endurance:	48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged,^[5] 75 days on patrol
Test depth:	400 ft (120 m)^[5]
Complement:	10 officers, 70–71 enlisted^[5]
Armament:	10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 forward, 4 aft 24 torpedoes^[4] 1 × 4-inch (102 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun^[4] Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

USS Walrus (SS-431)

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