USS Peto

History
United States
Builder	Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Laid down	15 June 1941
Launched	30 April 1942
Commissioned	21 November 1942
Decommissioned	25 December 1942
Recommissioned	January 1943
Decommissioned	25 June 1946
Stricken	1 August 1960
Fate	Sold for scrap on 29 November 1960
General characteristics
Class & type	Gato-class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement	1,525 tons (1,549 t) surfaced, 2,424 tons (2,460 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 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 Diesel engines driving electric generators; 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries; 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears; two propellers ; 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced; 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged;
Speed	21 kn (39 km/h) surfaced, 9 kn (17 km/h) submerged
Range	11,000 nmi (20,000 km) @ 10 kn (19 km/h) aurfaced
Endurance	48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged, 75 days on patrol
Test depth	300 ft (91 m)
Complement	6 officers, 54 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 Peto (SS-265), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the peto, a sharp-nosed tropical fish of the mackerel family.