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Uss Loggerhead (Ss-374) style="text-align: center" colspan="2"|
Loggerhead (SS-374), during sea trials on Lake Michigan, winter 1944. | | lign ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|USN Jack | | rdered: | | | aid down: | 1 April 1944 | | aunched: | 13 August 1944 | | ommissioned: | 9 February 1945 | | ecommissioned: | 16 June 1946 | | truck: | 30 June 1967 | | ate: | 1969 | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | isplacement,
Surfaced:
Submerged: |
1,526 tons (1550 t),
2,424 tons (2460 t) | | ength: | 311.8 ft (95.0 m) | | eam: | 27.3 ft (8.3 m) | | raft: | 15.3 ft (4.6 m) | | Depth limit: | 400 ft (120 m) | Speed,
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Submerged: |
20.25 knots (37 km/h)
8.75 knots (16 km/h) | | ropulsion: | four 5400-hp diesel engines
four 2740-hp (2.0 MW) electric motors,
two propellers | | Submerged Endurance: | 48 hours at 2 knots | | Patrol Endurance: | 75 days | | ange: | 11,000 nmi. (20,000 km)
surfaced at 10 knots | | omplement: | 66 officers and enlisted | | rmament: | ten 21" torpedo tubes,
(six forward, four aft),
24 torpedoes,
one 5"/25 deck gun,
four machine guns | | otto: | USS Loggerhead (SS-374), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the loggerhead, Caretta caretta, a very large, carnivorous sea turtle common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Loggerhead (SS-374) was laid down 1 April 1944 by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, Wisc.; launched 13 August 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Barbara Fox; and commissioned 9 February 1945, Commander Ralph N. Metcalf in command. Loggerhead emerged from the Manitowoc River into Lake Michigan 1 March 1945 and headed via Chicago to Lockport, Ill., where she entered a floating drydock and was towed down the Mississippi River. She arrived at New Orleans 7 March and departed 5 days later transiting the Panama Canal and arriving at Pearl Harbor 8 April. Loggerheads first war patrol started 15 May when she departed Hawaii and headed via Saipan for the Luzon Straits and the South China Sea. Patrolling along the east coast of Hainan Island, she sighted an enemy hospital ship 11 June and allowed it to pass unharmed. Three days later, Loggerhead bombarded a suspected radar installation at Gap Rock south of Hong Kong, causing severe damage to the tower. Much time was devoted to lifeguard duty during this patrol. Changing patrol areas and briefly stopping at Subic Bay 1 July for fuel, the submarine headed for an assigned lifeguard station south of Hong Kong. She stopped numerous native boats, questioned their crews, and learned that the Japanese were commandeering all native boats in the ports which they controlled. On 13 July the submarine fired five torpedoes at enemy ships in Semarang Roadstead. The next day, the submarine headed for Australia, transiting Lombok Straits between Bali and Lombok Island during daylight 14 July. While Loggerhead passed between these islands, the enemy shore batteries surprised her with hot fire. Evading the bursts of the Japanese shells through skillful maneuvers, Loggerhead escaped undamaged. She arrived Fremantle 19 July. The end of hostilities 15 August found Loggerhead two days out of Fremantle heading for the Gulf of Siam on her second war patrol. She put in Subic Bay 22 August, departed for the United States 31 August via Pearl Harbor, and arrived San Francisco 22 September 1945. Loggerhead decommissioned at Mare Island Navy Yard 16 June 1946 and was placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet. In December 1962 she was reclassified an auxiliary submarine, AGSS-374, and towed to Seattle, Wash., where she served as a reserve training submarine until 30 June 1967 when she was relieved by auxiliary submarine Rasher (AGSS-269). Struck from the Naval Vessel Register on the same date, Loggerhead was sold for scrap in early 1969. References External links Loggerhead 374
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