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Dolphin was the penultimate design in the V-boat series. With a length of 319 ft (97 m) and a displacement only a little more than half that of the previous three large cruiser submarines (1,718 long tons (1,746 t) surfaced, 2,240 long tons (2,276 t) submerged), Dolphin was clearly an attempt to strike a medium between those latter submarines and earlier S-class submarines, which were little ...
USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) was a United States Navy diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. She was commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007. Her 38-year career was the longest in history for a US Navy submarine to that point. She was the Navy's last operational conventionally powered submarine. [2]
USS Dolphin: United States California: San Diego: United States: 1968 Dolphin class: Submarine: Maritime Museum of San Diego [21] USS Drum: United States Alabama: Mobile: United States: 1941 Gato class: Submarine: USS Alabama Battleship Commission [22] USS Edson: United States Michigan: Bay City: United States: 1958 Forrest Sherman class ...
Originally called USS V-1 through V-9 (SS-163 through SS-171), in 1931 the nine submarines were renamed Barracuda, Bass, Bonita, Argonaut, Narwhal, Nautilus, Dolphin, Cachalot, and Cuttlefish, respectively. All served in World War II, six of them on war patrols in the central Pacific. Argonaut was lost to enemy action.
Pages in category "World War II submarines of the United States" ... USS Diablo; USS Dogfish; USS Dolphin (SS-169) USS Dorado (SS-248) USS Dragonet; USS Drum (SS-228) E.
USS Dolphin (PG-24) was a gunboat/dispatch vessel; the fourth ship of the United States Navy to share the name. Dolphin was the first U.S. Navy ship to fly the flag of the president of the United States during President Chester A. Arthur's administration, and the second Navy ship to serve as a presidential yacht.
USS Seawolf (SS-197) 1 December 1939: Tambor: 12: USS Tambor (SS-198) 16 January 1939: USS Grayback (SS-208) 30 June 1941: Mackerel: 2: USS Mackerel (SS-204) 6 October 1939: USS Marlin (SS-205) 1 August 1941: Gato: 77: USS Drum (SS-228) 11 September 1940: USS Croaker (SS-246) 21 April 1944: USS Drum was only boat actually commissioned before US ...
Destroyed by Japanese aircraft 10 Dec 1941. First US submarine lost in World War II. SS-196 Searaven: SS-197 Seawolf: Accidentally sunk by US Navy destroyer escort 3 Oct 1944. SS-198 Tambor: Lead boat of a class of 12 SS-199 Tautog: Highest scoring US submarine of World War II. SS-200 Thresher: SS-201 Triton: Sunk 15 April 1943 by Japanese ...