USS Pargo (SS-264)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Pargo.
USS Pargo (SS-264), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the pargo, a fish of the genus Lutjanus found in the West Indies.
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United States | |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 21 May 1942[1] |
Launched | 24 January 1943[1] |
Commissioned | 26 April 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | 12 June 1946[1] |
Stricken | 1 December 1960[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 16 May 1961[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum[2] |
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Range | 11,000 NM (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[3] |
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Test depth | 300 ft (90 m)[3] |
Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[3] |
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