USS Pogy (SS-266)
Pogy (SS-266), underway, possibly on the Great Lakes, c. 1943–1945 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Builder | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin |
| Laid down | 15 September 1941 |
| Launched | 23 June 1942 |
| Commissioned | 10 January 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 1 February 1943 |
| Recommissioned | 12 February 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 20 July 1946 |
| Stricken | 1 September 1958 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1 May 1959 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 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 | 300 ft (90 m) |
| Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted |
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USS Pogy (SS-266), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the pogy, or menhaden. She was credited with sinking 16 ships totaling 62,633 gross register tons during World War II.