For other ships of the same name, see USS Eel.
USS Eel (SS-354) | |
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Career (United States) | |
Name: | USS Eel |
Namesake: | The eel |
Builder: | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut (proposed)[1] |
Laid down: | Never |
Fate: | Construction order cancelled 23 October 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Balao class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement: | 1,526 long tons (1,550 t) surfaced,[2] 2,414 long tons (2,453 t) submerged[2] |
Length: | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
Draft: | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
Propulsion: | |
Speed: | 20.25 kn (37.50 km/h) surfaced,[6] 8.75 kn (16.21 km/h) submerged[6] |
Range: | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced @ 10 kn (19 km/h)[6] |
Endurance: | 48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged,[6] 75 days on patrol |
Test depth: | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement: | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[6] |
Armament: |
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USS Eel (SS-354), would have been a Balao-class submarine, the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the eels, an order of voracious, snakelike fishes, having a smooth, slimy skin and no pelvic fins.
Eel's construction was canceled on 23 October 1944.
The name USS Eel was used for a fictional U.S. Navy submarine in Edward L. Beach's 1955 novel Run Silent, Run Deep.
References[]
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946, p. 146
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 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.
- ↑ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 p. 261
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305-311
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- Gardiner, Robert, Ed. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946. New York: Mayflower Books, 1980. ISBN 0-8317-0303-2.
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