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DARTER submarine (1956)


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Darter 1987

Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
SS576 Darter 144 Electric Boat, Groton 10.11.1954 28.5.1956 20.10.1956 stricken 6.1990


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement normal, t

1872 / 2372

Length, m

81.7 wl 86.7 oa

Breadth, m

8.30

Draught, m

5.10

No of shafts

2

Machinery

3 Fairbank Morse diesel-generators, 2 Elliott electric motors

Power, h. p.

3100 / 4700

Max speed, kts

15.5 / 16

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)13500(10) / 144(3)
Armament

8 - 533 TT (6 bow Mk 54, 2 stern Mk 55, 26)

Electronic equipmentBPS-12 radar, BQS-4, BQR-2 sonars, BLR-1 ECM suite
Complement

83

Diving depth operational, m210


Standard scale images


<i>Darter </i>1963
Darter 1963
<i>Darter </i>1967
Darter 1967


Graphics


<i>Darter </i>1987
Darter 1987


Project history

Improved version of the Tang class, with console controls. Two planned sisters Grayback and Growler were completes as strategic missile submarines.

Modernizations

late 1960s: + BQG-4 sonar

1960s: - BLR-1 ECM suite; + WLR-1 ECM suite

Naval service

No significant events.