USS Sealion (SS-315)
Sealion (APSS-315), converted to an amphibious transport submarine (May 1956) | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Builder | General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down | 25 February 1943 |
| Launched | 31 October 1943 |
| Commissioned | 8 March 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 16 February 1946 |
| Recommissioned | 2 November 1948 |
| Decommissioned | 30 June 1960 |
| Recommissioned | 20 October 1961 |
| Decommissioned | 20 February 1970 |
| Stricken | 15 March 1977 |
| Fate | Sunk as a target off Newport on 8 July 1978 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | 1,526 long tons (1,550 t) surfaced, 2,424 long tons (2,463 t) submerged |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 20.25 knots (37.50 km/h; 23.30 mph) surfaced, 8.75 knots (16.21 km/h) submerged |
| Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km; 13,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced |
| Endurance | 48 hours at 2 kn (3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph) submerged, 75 days on patrol |
| Test depth | 400 ft (120 m) |
| Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted |
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USS Sealion (SS/SSP/ASSP/APSS/LPSS-315), a Balao-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea lion, any of several large, eared seals native to the Pacific. She is sometimes referred to as Sealion II, because her first skipper, Lieutenant Commander Eli Thomas Reich, was a veteran of the first Sealion (SS-195), serving on her when she was lost at the beginning of World War II. Sealion was the only US and Allied submarine that sank an enemy battleship during the Second World War.
Her keel was laid down on 25 February 1943 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 31 October 1943 sponsored by Mrs. Emory S. Land, and commissioned on 8 March 1944.