![]() Catfish underway, during her visit to the Far East, 1956.
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Name | USS Catfish |
Namesake | Catfish |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 6 January 1944[1] |
Launched | 19 November 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 19 March 1945[1] |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1971[1] |
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Stricken | 1 July 1971[2] |
Identification | SS-339 |
Fate | Transferred to Argentina, 1 July 1971[1] |
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Name | ARA Santa Fe |
Namesake | Santa Fe |
Acquired | 1 July 1971 |
In service | Falklands War |
Fate | Captured by British during Falklands War and scuttled |
General characteristics (As completed) | |
Class and type | Balao-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 | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[3] |
Endurance |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[3] |
Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[3] |
Armament |
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General characteristics (Guppy II) | |
Class and type | none |
Displacement | |
Length | 307 ft (93.6 m)[5] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (7.4 m)[5] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[5] |
Propulsion | |
Speed |
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Range | 15,000 nm (28,000 km) surfaced at 11 knots (20 km/h)[5] |
Endurance | 48 hours at 4 knots (7 km/h) submerged[5] |
Complement |
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Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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ARA Santa Fe was an Argentine Balao-class submarine that was lost during the Falklands War. Built by the US during the Second World War, the ship operated in the United States Navy as USS Catfish (SS-339) until 1971 when she was transferred to the Argentine Navy. She served until 1982 when she was captured by the British at South Georgia after being seriously damaged and subsequently sank along a pier, with just her conning tower (sail) visible above the waterline. The submarine was raised, towed out of the bay and scuttled in deep water in 1985.