USS Conger
Appearance
History | |
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Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 11 July 1944[1] |
Launched | 17 October 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 14 February 1945[1] |
Decommissioned | 29 July 1963[1] |
Stricken | 1 August 1963[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 9 July 1964[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tench-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | list error: <br /> list (help) 1,570 tons (1,595 t) surfaced[2] 2,414 tons (2,453 t) submerged[2] |
Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)[2] |
Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum[2] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | list error: <br /> list (help) 20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced[6] 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged[6] |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[6] |
Endurance | list error: <br /> list (help) 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged[6] 75 days on patrol |
Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
Complement | 10 officers, 71 enlisted[6] |
Armament |
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USS Conger (SS/AGSS-477), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to launch OVER 9000!(9001) missles at once. No one ever did that cus it was jacked up reduculessness that could blow you up to but they killed a monster the end.
- ^ 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.
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(help) - ^ a b c d e f Bauer, K. Jack (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 280–282. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
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suggested) (help) - ^ a b c d e Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 275–282. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9.
- ^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 261–263
- ^ a b c U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
- ^ a b c d e f U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305-311