![]() Mackerel on 22 March 1941.
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Name | Mackerel |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 6 October 1939[1] |
Launched | 28 September 1940[1] |
Commissioned | 31 March 1941[1] |
Decommissioned | 9 November 1945[1] |
Stricken | 28 November 1945[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 24 April 1947[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Mackerel-class submarine[3] |
Displacement | |
Length | 243 ft 1 in (74.09 m)[2] |
Beam | 22 ft 1 in (6.73 m)[2] |
Draft | 13 ft ¼ in (4.0 m)[2] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | |
Range | 6,500 nautical miles (12,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) (service)[2] |
Test depth | 250 ft (76 m)[2] |
Complement | 4 officers, 33 enlisted[2] |
Armament |
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USS Mackerel (SS-204), the lead ship of her class of submarines, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for the mackerel. Mackerel and her near-sister Marlin (designed and built by Portsmouth Navy Yard) were prototype small submarines which the Navy was exploring to replace the aging S-class submarines.[4]