USS Wahoo (SS-518)

History
United States
Name:	USS Wahoo
Namesake:	The wahoo
Laid down:	Never
Fate:	Construction contract cancelled 29 August 1945
General characteristics
Class & type:	Tench-class diesel-electric submarine [1]
Displacement:	1,570 tons (1,595 t) surfaced [1] 2,416 tons (2,455 t) submerged [1]
Length:	311 ft 8 in (95.00 m) [1]
Beam:	27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) [1]
Draft:	17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum [1]
Propulsion:	4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 10-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators[2][3] 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries[4] 2 × low-speed direct-drive General Electric electric motors[2] two propellers [2] 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced[2] 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged[2]
Speed:	20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced [5] 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged [5]
Range:	11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) [5]
Endurance:	48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged [5] 75 days on patrol
Test depth:	400 ft (120 m) [5]
Complement:	10 officers, 71 enlisted [5]
Armament:	10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 forward, 4 aft) 28 torpedoes[4] 1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun[4] Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

USS Wahoo (SS-518), a Tench-class submarine. Her construction was authorized but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 29 August 1944. The name Wahoo was reassigned to SS-516, which had already been laid down.

References

1. Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 280–282. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
2. Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 275–282. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9.
3. U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 261–263
4. U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
5. U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305-311

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.