USS Bang
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USS Bang (SS-385) was a United States Navy Balao-class submarine, named after the bang, a dark blue or black fish of the Atlantic herring family found in the coastal waters of the United States north of North Carolina.
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USS Bang underway, 6 June 1958. | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Bang (SS-385) |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 30 April 1943[1] |
Launched | 30 August 1943[1] |
Commissioned | 4 December 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | 12 February 1947[1] |
Recommissioned | 1 February 1951[1] |
Decommissioned | 15 May 1952[1] |
Recommissioned | 4 October 1952[1] |
Decommissioned | 1 October 1972[1] |
Stricken | 1 November 1974[2] |
Fate | Transferred to Spain, 1 October 1972[1] |
Spain | |
Name | Cosme Garcia (S34) |
Fate | Scrapped in 1983 |
General characteristics (World War II) | |
Class and type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | 1,526 long tons (1,550 t) surfaced,[2] 2,391 long tons (2,429 t) submerged[2] |
Length | 311 ft 6 in (94.95 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
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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) @ 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] |
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General characteristics (Guppy IIA) | |
Class and type | none |
Displacement | 1,848 tons (1,878 t) surfaced,[7] 2,440 tons (2,479 t) submerged[7] |
Length | 307 ft (94 m)[8] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)[8] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[8] |
Propulsion | Submarine snorkel added,[7] One diesel engine and generator removed,[7] Batteries upgraded to Sargo II[7] |
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