USS Bullhead
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Bullhead |
| Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down | 21 October 1943 |
| Launched | 16 July 1944 |
| Commissioned | 4 December 1944 |
| Fate | Sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Java Sea, 6 August 1945 |
| Notes | One of the last vessels to be sunk in World War II |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum |
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| Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km; 13,000 mi) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
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| Test depth | 400 ft (120 m) |
| Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted |
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USS Bullhead (SS-332), a Balao-class submarine, was the last US Navy ship sunk by enemy action during World War II, probably on the same day that an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bullhead (a name given to a number of large-headed bottom-dwelling fish, especially the catfish, miller's thumb, and sculpin).