USS Perch (SS-176)
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| Builder: | General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down: | 25 February 1935 |
| Launched: | 9 May 1936 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Thomas Withers |
| Commissioned: | 19 November 1936 |
| Struck: | 24 June 1942 |
| Fate: | Scuttled in the Java Sea on 3 March 1942 after being damaged by Japanese destroyers |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Porpoise-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,350 long tons (1,370 t) standard, surfaced, 1,997 long tons (2,029 t) submerged |
| Length: | 298 ft (91 m) (waterline), 300 ft 6 in (91.59 m) (overall) |
| Beam: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Draft: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × Winton Model 16-201A 16-cylinder two-cyclediesel engines, 1,300 hp (0.97 MW) each, driving electrical generators through reduction gears, 2 × 120-cell Gould AMTX33HB batteries, 8 × General Electric electric motors, 538 hp (401 kW) each, 2 × General Motors six-cylinder four-cycle 6-241 auxiliary diesels |
| Speed: | 19.25 kn (35.65 km/h) surfaced, 8.75 kn (16.21 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) @ 10 kn (19 km/h), (bunkerage 92,801 US gal (351,290 l)) |
| Endurance: | 10 hours @ 5 kn (9.3 km/h), 36 hours @ minimum speed submerged |
| Test depth: | 250 ft (76 m) |
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| Armament: | 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, two aft; 16 torpedoes), 1 × 4 in (102 mm)/50 caliber deck gun, 4 × 0.3 cal (7.62 mm) machineguns (2x2) |
USS Perch (SS-176) - a Porpoise-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the perch.
Her keel was laid down on 25 February 1935 by the Electric Boat Company, in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 9 May 1936 (sponsored by Mrs. Thomas Withers), and commissioned on 19 November 1936, Lieutenant Commander George C. Crawford in command.
After shakedown in the North Atlantic, Perch became a member of the Pacific Fleet when she joined Submarine Squadron 6 (SubRon 6) in November 1937. The following spring she was engaged in the annual fleet problem and did some work on a survey of the Aleutian Islands, entering the Bering Sea on 28 February. In the spring of 1939, Perch operated with the fleet on its cruise to the East Coast.
In October 1939, Perch departed San Diego, California, for Manila where she became a division flagship and made a summer cruise in 1940 to Tsingtao and Shanghai. She spent the year preceding the war in operations around the Philippines. A week before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Perch rendezvoused with two transports off Shanghai and escorted the Fourth Marines from China to the Philippines.
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