USS Stickleback (SS-415)

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USS Stickleback (SS-415)
USS Stickleback (SS-415)
Overview
Keel laying March 1, 1944
Launch January 1, 1945
1. Period of service flag
period of service

March 29, 1945–29. May 1958

Whereabouts decreased
Technical specifications
displacement

1526 ts surfaced
2424 ts surfaced
length

95.0 meters

width

8.3 meters

Draft

4.6 meters

Diving depth 120 meters
crew

6 officers, 60 sailors

drive

4 × 1350 PS diesel engines
4 × electric motors
(total 2740 PS)

speed

Surfaced 20.25 knots surfaced
8.75 knots

Range

11,000  nautical miles at 10 knots

The USS Stickleback (SS-415) was a conventionally powered submarine of the United States Navy of Balao-class submarine .

The boat was in the May 1, 1944 Vallejo , California , to put Kiel and expired on January 1, 1945 from the stack . The name was Stickleback chosen the English name for a fish of the family of sticklebacks . On March 29, 1945 the boat was put into service under Commander Lawrence G. Bernard in the Pacific Fleet , godmother was a Mrs. John OR Coll.

The first mission took the USS Stickleback to Japan before the end of World War II , where it was patrolling the coast. During this patrol, the boat picked up 19 castaways, provided them with medical and food supplies and released them again near the coast. On September 28th, after a stopover in Guam, it returned to San Francisco . After participating in a naval parade, she was released from active service on January 2, 1946 and assigned to the reserve fleet in Pearl Harbor .

On September 6th of the same year she was put back into service and transferred to San Diego as a training ship . In 1952 it was converted to a type Guppy IIA and was transferred to the 7th submarine squadron in Pearl Harbor on June 26, 1953.

After the end of the Korean War , she served between February and May 1954 to support the UN troops in Korea, followed by a multi-year mission as a training ship to develop nautical attack and defense tactics. The Stickleback sank on May 29, 1958 during a collision exercise with the USS Silverstein (DE-534) near Hawaii and was removed from the U.S. Navy's registry on June 30, 1958 . All crew members could be saved in the accident.

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Coordinates: 21 ° 27 '36 "  N , 157 ° 58' 48"  W.