USS Drum (SS-228)

USS *Drum* (SS-228)
History
United States
Namesake	Drum, Fish
Ordered	12 June 1940
Builder	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Laid down	11 September 1940
Launched	12 May 1941
Sponsored by	Mrs. Thomas Holcomb
Commissioned	1 November 1941
Decommissioned	16 February 1946
Stricken	30 June 1968
Fate	Museum ship 14 April 1969
Status	Museum ship at Mobile, Alabama
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General characteristics
Class & type	Gato-class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement	1,490 long tons (1,514 t) surfaced; 2,060 long tons (2,093 t) submerged;
Length	311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)
Beam	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft	17 ft (5.2 m) maximum
Propulsion	4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-1⁄8 9-cylinder opposed-piston diesel engines driving electrical generators; 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries; 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors with reduction gears; 2 × propellers; 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced; 2,740 shp (2.04 MW) submerged;
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) surfaced; 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) submerged;
Range	11,000 nmi (20,000 km; 13,000 mi) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Endurance	48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph) submerged, 75 days on patrol
Test depth	300 ft (91 m)
Complement	8 officers, 75 enlisted
Armament	10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 6 forward, 4 aft; 24 torpedoes; 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun; Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon;
	USS Drum (submarine)
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Landmark
Location	Mobile, Alabama
Coordinates	30°40′52″N 88°1′0″W / 30.68111°N 88.01667°W
Built	1941
Architect	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
NRHP reference No.	86000086
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	14 January 1986
Designated NHL	14 January 1986

USS Drum (SS-228) is a Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship named after the drum, a type of fish. Drum is a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama, at Battleship Memorial Park.

Drum was the twelfth of the Gato class but was the first completed and the first to enter combat in World War II. She is the oldest of her class still in existence.