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Career | |
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Laid down: | |
Launched: | 24 December 1942 |
Commissioned: | 10 May 1943 |
Fate: | sunk by Japanese |
Stricken: | |
General Characteristics | |
Displacement: | 1526 tons |
Length: | 311 feet 9 inches |
Beam: | 27 feet 3 inches |
Draft: | 15 feet 3 inches |
Speed: | 20 knots |
Complement: | 66 officers and men |
Armament: | ten 21-inch torpedo tubes |
Cisco sailed from Panama 7 August 1943 for Brisbane, Australia, arriving 1 September to assume local patrol duties, until 18 September, when she docked at Port Darwin. She put out on her first war patrol 20 September, but never returned. Japanese records tell of sighting a submarine leaking oil on 28 September in an area where Cisco is known to have been the only submarine then operating. Japanese records state this submarine was sunk by bombs and depth charges. Cisco is thus presumed to have been lost in action 28 September 1943.
References
This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.