USS Trout (SS-202)
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Trout |
| Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down | 8 August 1939 |
| Launched | 21 May 1940 |
| Commissioned | 15 November 1940 |
| Fate | Lost northwest of the Philippines around 29 February 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Tambor-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 307 ft 2 in (93.62 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 7+1⁄2 in (4.458 m) |
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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 | 6 officers, 54 enlisted |
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USS Trout (SS-202) was the fifth Tambor-class submarine commissioned in the United States Navy, serving in the Pacific from 1941 to 1944. She received 11 battle stars for World War II service and Presidential Unit Citation for her second, third, and fifth war patrols. Trout also delivered ammunition to the besieged American forces on Corregidor and brought out 20 tons of gold bars and silver pesos from the Philippine currency reserve to Pearl Harbor. During 1941, she was used as a target by a series of tests determining the vulnerability of submarines to depth charge attacks.
Trout is credited with sinking 12 enemy ships for 37,144 tons according to JANAC records. During her first ten war patrols she made 32 torpedo attacks, firing 85 torpedoes, including 34 hits, 5 confirmed premature detonations, 5 confirmed duds, and 25 suspected duds. She was also involved in six battle surface actions and was attacked with depth charges eight times.
She was reported overdue on 17 April 1944 and presumed lost with all hands on her eleventh war patrol. Of the twelve Tambor-class submarines, only five survived the war.