48 hours @ 2 kn (2.3 mph; 3.7 km/h) submerged;[3] 75 days on patrol
Test depth
400 ft (120 m)[3]
Complement
10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[3]
Armament
10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft; 24 torpedoes)
one [[4-inch/50-caliber gun|4 in (100 mm)/50]]/50 caliber deck gun
one 40 mm (1.57 in) Bofors antiaircraft cannon
two .50 cal (12.7 mm) machineguns[4]
USS Balao (SS/AGSS-285) was the lead ship of the United States Navy's Balao-class submarines during World War II and named for the balao, a small schooling marine fish.
^ abcdefghFriedman, Norman (1995). U.S. Submarines Through 1945: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute Press. pp. 285–304. ISBN 1-55750-263-3.
^ abcdefgBauer, 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 0-313-26202-0.
^ abcdeU.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp.305–311.
^Lenton, H. T. American Submarines (Doubleday, 1973), p.79.
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