USS Cero (SS-225)
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Cero |
| Namesake: | Cero mackerel |
| Builder: | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down: | 24 August 1942 |
| Launched: | 4 April 1943 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. D. E. Barbey |
| Commissioned: | 4 July 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 8 June 1946 |
| Commissioned: | 4 February 1952 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 December 1953 |
| Struck: | 30 June 1967 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, October 1970 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,525 long tons (1,549 t) surfaced 2,424 long tons (2,463 t) submerged |
| Length: | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft (5.2 m) maximum |
| Propulsion: |
4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced 9 kn (17 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 48 hours at 2 kn (4 km/h) submerged 75 days on patrol |
| Test depth: | 300 ft (90 m) |
| Complement: | 6 officers, 54 enlisted |
| Armament: | 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft) 24 torpedoes 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon |
USS Cero (SS-225), a Gato-class submarine, was the first submarine and second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the cero mackerel, a large food and game fish of the mackerel family, found chiefly in the West Indies.
Cero's keel was laid down on 24 August 1942 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, CT. She was launched 4 April 1943 (sponsored by Mrs. D. E. Barbey) and commissioned 4 July 1943, Commander David C. White (Class of 1927) in command.
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