USS Spearfish

History
United States
Builder	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
Laid down	9 September 1937
Launched	29 October 1938
Commissioned	19 July 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	1,450 long tons (1,470 t) standard, surfaced; 2,350 long tons (2,390 t) submerged;
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	4 × Hooven-Owens-Rentschler (H.O.R.) 9-cylinder diesel engines (two hydraulic-drive, two driving electrical generators); 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries; 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears; two shafts; 5,500 shp (4.1 MW) surfaced; 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged;
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced; 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged;
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
Armament	8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes; (four forward, four aft); 24 torpedoes ; 1 × 3 in (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun ; four machine guns;

USS Spearfish (SS-190), a Sargo-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the spearfish, any of several large, powerful, pelagic fishes of the genus Tetrapturus allied to the marlins and sailfishes.