USS Amberjack (SS-522)

USS Amberjack (SS-522)


For other ships of the same name, see USS Amberjack.
Career (United States)
Builder: Boston Navy Yard
Laid down: 8 February 1944
Launched: 15 December 1944
Commissioned: 4 March 1946
Decommissioned: 17 October 1973
Struck: 17 October 1973
Fate: Transferred to Brazil, 17 October 1973
Career (Brazil)
Name: Ceara (S-14)
Acquired: 17 October 1973
Decommissioned: 21 September 1987
General characteristics (As completed)
Class & type: Tench-class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement: 1,570 tons (1,595 t) surfaced
2,428 tons (2,467 t) submerged
Length: 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m)
Beam: 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft: 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum
Propulsion:

4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 10-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators
2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
2 × low-speed direct-drive Westinghouse electric motors
two propellers
5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced

2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
Speed: 20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced
8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged
Range: 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Endurance: 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged
75 days on patrol
Test depth: 400 ft (120 m)
Complement: 10 officers, 71 enlisted
Armament:

10 x 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
(six forward, four aft)
28 torpedoes
2 x 5-inch (127 mm)/25 caliber deck guns

Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
General characteristics (Guppy II)
Displacement:

1,870 tons (1,900 t) surfaced

2,440 tons (2,480 t) submerged
Length: 307 ft (93.6 m)
Beam: 27 ft 4 in (7.4 m)
Draft: 17 ft (5.2 m)
Propulsion:

Snorkel added

Batteries upgraded to GUPPY type, capacity expanded to 504 cells (1 × 184 cell, 1 × 68 cell, and 2 × 126 cell batteries)
Speed:

Surfaced:

  • 18.0 knots (33.3 km/h) maximum
  • 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h) cruising

Submerged:

  • 16.0 knots (29.6 km/h) for ½ hour
  • 9.0 knots (16.7 km/h) snorkeling
  • 3.5 knots (6.5 km/h) cruising
Range: 15,000 nm (28,000 km) surfaced at 11 knots (20 km/h)
Endurance: 48 hours at 4 knots (7 km/h) submerged
Complement: 9–10 officers
5 petty officers
70 enlisted men
Sensors and
processing systems:		 WFA active sonar
JT passive sonar
Mk 106 torpedo fire control system
Armament:

10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
(six forward, four aft)

all guns removed

USS Amberjack (SS 522), a Tench-class submarine, was the second submarine of the United States Navy named for the amberjack, a vigorous sport fish found in the western Atlantic from New England to Brazil.

Read more about USS Amberjack (SS-522):  Commissioning, Shakedown and First Conversion, European and NATO Exercises, End of Service