USS Saury
| USS Saury underway off the Mare Island Navy Yard | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down | 28 June 1937 |
| Launched | 20 August 1938 |
| Commissioned | 3 April 1939 |
| Decommissioned | 22 June 1946 |
| Stricken | 19 July 1946 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap 19 May 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sargo-class composite diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 310 ft 6 in (94.64 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft 10 in (8.18 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft 7+1⁄2 in (5.067 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Endurance | 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged |
| Test depth | 250 ft (76 m) |
| Complement | 5 officers, 54 enlisted |
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USS Saury (SS-189), a Sargo-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the saury, a long-beaked relative of the flying fish found in the temperate zones of the Atlantic.