USS Seahorse file photo [17829]

Seahorse

CountryUnited States
Ship ClassBalao-class Submarine
Hull NumberSS-304
BuilderMare Island Navy Yard
Laid Down1 Jul 1942
Launched9 Jan 1943
Commissioned31 Mar 1943
Decommissioned2 Mar 1946
Displacement1,550 tons standard; 2,424 tons submerged
Length312 feet
Beam27 feet
Draft17 feet
MachineryFour Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-1/8 9-cyl diesel engines (5,400shp), four Elliott electric motors (2,740shp), two 126-cell Sargo batteries, two propellers
Speed20 knots
Range11,000nm at 10 knots surfaced, 48 hours at 2 knots submerged
Crew81
Armament6x533mm forward torpedo tubes, 4x533mm aft torpedo tubes, 24 torpedoes, 1x127mm deck gun
Submerged Speed8.75 knots

Contributor:

ww2dbaseUSS Seahorse was commissioned into service in Mar 1943. After shakedown and training cruises, she departed the west coast of the United States for Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, from where she would embark on her first war patrol in Aug 1943. She would make a total of eight war patrols, most of which saw her sinking Japanese vessels ranking from small sail boats to large cargo ships; on 20 Apr 1944, she encountered a warship, Japanese submarine RO-45, and promptly destroyed her as well. She ended the war while on lifeguard station 40 miles southeast of Hachijo Jima of Izu Islands south of Japan, about 250 kilometers south of Tokyo, Japan. She was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, United States in Mar 1946 and was placed in reserve until she was removed from the US Navy Register in Mar 1967. She was sold for scrap in the following year.

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Last Major Revision: Apr 2013