USS Saury information

	; USS Saury underway off the Mare Island Navy Yard
History
United States
Builder	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
Laid down	28 June 1937
Launched	20 August 1938
Commissioned	3 April 1939
Decommissioned	22 June 1946
Stricken	19 July 1946
Fate	Sold for scrap 19 May 1947
General characteristics
Class and type	Sargo-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine
Displacement	1,450 long tons (1,470 t) standard, surfaced; 2,350 long tons (2,390 t) submerged;
Length	310 ft 6 in (94.64 m)
Beam	26 ft 10 in (8.18 m)
Draft	16 ft 7+1⁄2 in (5.067 m)
Propulsion	4 × Hooven-Owens-Rentschler (H.O.R.) 9-cylinder diesel engines (two hydraulic-drive, two driving electrical generators); 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries; 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears; two shafts; 5,500 shp (4.1 MW) surfaced; 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged;
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced; 8.75 knots (16 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 in (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun; four machine guns;

USS Saury (SS-189), a Sargo-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the saury, a long-beaked relative of the flying fish found in the temperate zones of the Atlantic.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Friedman, Norman (1995). U.S. Submarines Through 1945: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. pp. 285–304. ISBN 1-55750-263-3.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 269–270. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 202–204

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[FriedmanSubs1-specs-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311

[Register-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 269–270. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.

[FriedmanSubs1-composite-drive-4] U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 202–204

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History
USS Saury underway off the Mare Island Navy Yard
United States
Builder	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut^[1]
Laid down	28 June 1937^[1]
Launched	20 August 1938^[1]
Commissioned	3 April 1939^[1]
Decommissioned	22 June 1946^[1]
Stricken	19 July 1946^[1]
Fate	Sold for scrap 19 May 1947^[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Sargo-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine^[3]
Displacement	1,450 long tons (1,470 t) standard, surfaced^[2] 2,350 long tons (2,390 t) submerged^[2]
Length	310 ft 6 in (94.64 m)^[2]
Beam	26 ft 10 in (8.18 m)^[2]
Draft	16 ft 7+1⁄2 in (5.067 m)^[2]
Propulsion	4 × Hooven-Owens-Rentschler (H.O.R.) 9-cylinder diesel engines (two hydraulic-drive, two driving electrical generators)^[3]^[4] 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries^[2] 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears^[3] two shafts^[3] 5,500 shp (4.1 MW) surfaced^[3] 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged^[3]
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced^[2] 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged^[2]
Range	11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)^[2]
Endurance	48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged^[2]
Test depth	250 ft (76 m)^[2]
Complement	5 officers, 54 enlisted^[2]
Armament	8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, four aft) 24 torpedoes^[2] 1 × 3 in (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun^[2] four machine guns