USS Sea Poacher
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Sea Poacher |
| Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down | 23 February 1944 |
| Launched | 20 May 1944 |
| Commissioned | 31 July 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 15 November 1969 |
| Stricken | 15 August 1973 |
| Identification | SS-406 |
| Fate | Transferred to Peru, 1 July 1974 |
| Peru | |
| Name | Initially BAP Pabellón de Pica, changed a few weeks later to La Pedrera |
| Acquired | 1 July 1974 |
| Decommissioned | 1995 |
| Identification | S49 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 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 nautical miles (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 IA) | |
| Class & type | none |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 307 ft 7 in (93.75 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
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| Range | 17,000 nautical miles (31,000 km) surfaced at 11 knots (20 km/h) |
| Endurance | 36 hours at 3 knots (6 km/h) submerged |
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USS Sea Poacher (SS/AGSS-406), a Balao-class submarine, was a vessel of the United States Navy named for the sea poacher, a slender, mailed fish of the North Atlantic.
Sea Poacher (SS-406) was built by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine; launched on 20 May 1944; sponsored by Mrs. J. H. Spiller, wife of Commander Spiller, hull superintendent at the Navy Yard; and commissioned on 31 July 1944.