USS Walrus (SS-437)

{{short description|Submarine of the United States}}

{{other ships|USS Walrus}}

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|Ship image=USS Walrus (SS-437) launching.jpg

|Ship caption=USS Walrus (SS-437) is launched by the Electric Boat Company at GrotonConnecticut, on 20 September 1946.

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|Ship country=United States

|Ship flag={{USN flag|1944}}

|Ship name=USS Walrus

|Ship namesake=The walrus

|Ship ordered=

|Ship builder=Electric Boat Company, GrotonConnecticut

|Ship laid down=21 June 1945

|Ship launched=20 September 1946

|Ship sponsor=Miss Winifred P. Nagle

|Ship completed=Never

|Ship acquired=

|Ship commissioned=Never

|Ship decommissioned=

|Ship in service=

|Ship out of service=

|Ship struck=9 June 1958

|Ship reinstated=

|Ship fate=*Construction contract cancelled 7 January 1946

  • Sold incomplete for scrapping 1958

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|Ship class=Tench-class diesel-electric submarine{{cite book

| last = Bauer

| first = K. Jack

| authorlink =

|author2=Roberts, Stephen S.

| title = Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants

| publisher = Greenwood Press

| date = 1991

| location = Westport, Connecticut

| pages = 280–282

| url =

| doi =

| isbn = 0-313-26202-0 }}

|Ship displacement=*1,570 tons (1,595 t) surfaced

  • 2,416 tons (2,455 t) submerged

|Ship length={{convert|311|ft|8|in|abbr=on}}

|Ship beam={{convert|27|ft|4|in|abbr=on}}

|Ship draft={{convert|17|ft|0|in|abbr=on}} maximum

|Ship propulsion={{Fleet-boat-propulsion-late-FM-2-GE}}

|Ship speed=*{{convert|20.25|kn|km/h|0|lk=in}} surfaced U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305-311

  • {{convert|8.75|kn|km/h|0}} submerged

|Ship range={{convert|11000|nmi|km}} surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)

|Ship endurance=*48 hours at {{convert|2|kn|km/h}} submerged

  • 75 days on patrol

|Ship test depth={{convert|400|ft|m

1|abbr=on}}

|Ship complement=10 officers, 71 enlisted

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|Ship EW=

|Ship armament={{Fleet-boat-armament-5-inch-28-torps}}

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USS Walrus (SS-437), a World War II Tench-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the walrus, a gregarious, aquatic mammal found in Arctic waters, related to the seal and a prime source of leather, oil, ivory, and food. Like the second USS Walrus (SS-431), she was not completed.

Walrus{{'}}s keel was laid down on 21 June 1945 by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut. Work on the submarine was suspended on 7 January 1946 when the contract for her construction was cancelled, although she was launched on 20 September 1946, sponsored by Miss Winifred P. Nagle.

Walrus{{'}}s hull was assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, New London Group of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet on 9 December 1952. Her name was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 9 June 1958 and she was sold incomplete for scrapping.

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Walrus

Category:Cancelled ships of the United States Navy

Category:Ships built in Groton, Connecticut

Category:1946 ships