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Career | |
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Laid down: | 15 December 1942 |
Launched: | 15 August 1943 |
Commissioned: | 12 February 1945 |
Fate: | sold for scrap |
Stricken: | 9 June 1958 |
General Characteristics | |
Displacement: | 1526 tons surfaced, 2424 tons submerged |
Length: | 311 feet 8 inches |
Beam: | 27 feet 3 inches |
Draft: | 15 feet 3 inches |
Speed: | 20.25 knots surfaced, 8.75 knots submerged |
Complement: | 66 officers and men |
Armament: | one five-inch gun; two .50-caliber machineguns; ten 21-inch torpedo tubes |
While tied up alongside Pier 8, Lancetfish flooded through her after torpedo tube and sank 15 March 1945. She was raised eight days later and decommissioned 24 March. Assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet in uncompleted condition, she was transferred to the First Naval District 27 February 1947 and was assigned to the New London Group 9 December 1952. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 9 June 1958 and sold for scrap on 20 August 1959.
References
This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.