USS Rock (SS-274)
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| Builder: | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin |
| Laid down: | 23 December 1942 |
| Launched: | 20 June 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 26 October 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 May 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 12 October 1953 |
| Decommissioned: | 13 September 1969 |
| Struck: | 13 September 1969 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 17 August 1972 |
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| Class and type: | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine |
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| Length: | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum |
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| Range: | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
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| Test depth: | 300 ft (90 m) |
| Complement: | 6 officers, 54 enlisted |
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USS Rock (SS/SSR/AGSS-274), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy to be named for the rock, a striped bass found in the Chesapeake Bay region and elsewhere along the Atlantic Coast.
Rock (SS-274) was laid down by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, Wisc., 23 December 1942; launched 20 June 1943; sponsored by Mrs. B. O. Wells, and commissioned 26 October 1943, Comdr. John Jay Flachsenhar in command.
After a month of intensive training in Lake Michigan, Rock passed through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (at the time known as the Chicago Drainage Canal) to Lockport, Ill. There she entered a floating drydock for her voyage down the Mississippi River. She arrived in New Orleans on 29 November 1943, and got underway 6 days later for Panama, where she received further training before sailing for Pearl Harbor on 2 January 1944. Following voyage repairs Rock departed from Pearl Harbor for her first war patrol on 8 February 1944.
On 29 February 1944, Rock contacted a large enemy convoy en route to Truk. Detected by destroyer Asashimo while making a night surface approach on the convoy, she fired a spread of four torpedoes from her stern tubes at the closing enemy destroyer without scoring. Then illuminated by the destroyer's searchlight, and under fire from the surface ship's 5-inch (130 mm) guns, she dived. For 4 hours she underwent depth charge attacks, but survived. That night she surfaced and found that her periscopes were excessively damaged and that her bridge had been riddled with shrapnel. The damage necessitated a return to Pearl Harbor for repairs. Later that night, the busy Asashimo sank Trout.
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