USS Picuda
Port side view of the Picuda (SS-382), after refit and conversion at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard NH, somewhere in the Atlantic, 1954. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Picuda (SS-382) |
| Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down | 15 March 1943 |
| Launched | 12 July 1943 |
| Commissioned | 16 October 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 25 September 1946 |
| Recommissioned | 19 June 1953 |
| Decommissioned | 1 October 1972 |
| Stricken | 1 November 1974 |
| Fate | Transferred to Spain, 1 October 1972 |
| Spain | |
| Name | Narciso Monturiol (S-33) |
| Acquired | 1 October 1972 |
| Stricken | 30 April 1977 |
| General characteristics (World War II) | |
| Class & type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 6 in (94.95 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 nm (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 IIA) | |
| Class & type | none |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 307 ft (94 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
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USS Picuda (SS-382), a Balao-class submarine, was originally named Obispo, making her the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the obispo, a spotted sting ray.