Target for Operation Crossroads atomic bomb test,[1] then sunk as a target off southern California on 11 September 1948
General characteristics
Class and type
Sargo-class diesel-electric submarine[2]
Displacement
1,450 long tons (1,470 t) standard, surfaced,[3]
2,350 long tons (2,390 t) submerged[3]
Length
310 ft 6 in (94.64 m)[3]
Beam
26 ft 10 in (8.18 m)[3]
Draft
16 ft 7+1⁄2 in (5.067 m)[3]
Propulsion
4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators,[2][4] 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries,[3] 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears[2]
USS Searaven (SS-196), a Sargo-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea raven, a sculpin of the northern Atlantic coast of America.
^ abcdefFriedman, 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.
^ abcdefgBauer, 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.
^ abcdefghijklmnU.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
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