USS Garlopa (SS-358)

History
United States
Name:	USS Garlopa
Namesake:	The garlopa, a species of grouper
Builder:	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut (proposed)[1]
Laid down:	Date Unknown
Launched:	Never
Fate:	Construction contract cancelled 29 July 1944
General characteristics
Class and type:	Balao class diesel-electric submarine[2]
Displacement:	1,526 long tons (1,550 t) surfaced,[2] 2,414 long tons (2,453 t) submerged[2]
Length:	311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2]
Beam:	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2]
Draft:	16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2]
Propulsion:	4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators[3][4] 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries[5] 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears[3] two propellers [3] 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced[3] 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged[3]
Speed:	20.25 kn (37.50 km/h) surfaced,[6] 8.75 kn (16.21 km/h) submerged[6]
Range:	11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced @ 10 kn (19 km/h)[6]
Endurance:	48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged,[6] 75 days on patrol
Test depth:	400 ft (120 m)[6]
Complement:	10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[6]
Armament:	10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 forward, 4 aft 24 torpedoes[5] 1 × 4-inch (102 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun[5] Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

USS Garlopa (SS-358), would have been a Balao-class submarine, the only submarine of the United States Navy to be named for the garlopa, a large species of grouper found on the west coast of Mexico. Her keel was laid down at the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut, but construction was canceled on 29 July 1944.

References

1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946, p. 146
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. 275–280. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
3. Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 275–280. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9.
4. U.S. Submarines Through 1945 p. 261
5. U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
6. U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305-311

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Gardiner, Robert, Ed. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946. New York: Mayflower Books, 1980. ISBN 0-8317-0303-2.