USS Walrus (SS-437)
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=USS Walrus (SS-437) launching.jpg |Ship caption=USS Walrus (SS-437) is launched by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut, on 20 September 1946. }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{USN flag|1944}} |Ship name=USS Walrus |Ship namesake=The walrus |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |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
}} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |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 |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 |Ship range={{convert|11000|nmi|km}} surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) |Ship endurance=*48 hours at {{convert|2|kn|km/h}} submerged
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|Ship complement=10 officers, 71 enlisted |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament={{Fleet-boat-armament-5-inch-28-torps}} }} |
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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Category:Cancelled ships of the United States Navy