USS Chivo
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Chivo |
| Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down | 21 February 1944 |
| Launched | 14 January 1945 |
| Commissioned | 28 April 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 1 July 1971 |
| Stricken | 1 July 1971 |
| Identification | SS-341 |
| Fate | Transferred to Argentina, 1 July 1971 |
| Argentina | |
| Name | ARA Santiago del Estero |
| Acquired | 1 July 1971 |
| Decommissioned | January 1981 |
| Identification | S-22 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1983 |
| General characteristics (As completed) | |
| 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 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
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| Test depth | 400 ft (120 m) |
| Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted |
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| General characteristics (Guppy IA) | |
| Class & type | none |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 307 ft 7 in (93.8 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.3 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
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| Range | 17,000 nm (28,000 km) surfaced at 11 knots (20 km/h) |
| Endurance | 36 hours at 3 knots (6 km/h) submerged |
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USS Chivo (SS-341), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the "chivo" or big-scaled goatfish Pseudopenaeus grandisquamis, a fish inhabiting the Pacific Ocean between Panama and Mexico.
Chivo was launched 14 January 1945 by Electric Boat Company, Groton, Conn.; sponsored by Mrs. Edith Lindholm Baldwin, wife of Raymond E. Baldwin, the governor of Connecticut; and commissioned 28 April 1945.