Sawfish
| Country | United States |
| Ship Class | Gato-class Submarine |
| Hull Number | SS-276 |
| Builder | Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, United States |
| Laid Down | 20 Jan 1942 |
| Launched | 23 Jun 1942 |
| Commissioned | 26 Aug 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 26 Jun 1946 |
| Displacement | 1,526 tons standard; 2,410 tons submerged |
| Length | 312 feet |
| Beam | 27 feet |
| Draft | 15 feet |
| Machinery | Four Fairbanks Morse diesel engines, four General Electric main motors, two screws |
| Bunkerage | 94,400 gallons, two 126-cell main storage batteries |
| Power Output | 5,400 shaft horsepower |
| Speed | 20 knots |
| Range | 11,000 nm at 10 knots |
| Crew | 60 |
| Armament | 10x21 |
| Submerged Speed | 8.75 knots |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseThe submarine Sawfish held her shakedown cruiser in Narragansett Bay before sailing for Hawaii via the Panama Canal. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 2 Jan 1943 and got underway for her first of ten patrols on 31 Jan. During the course of the war, she patrolled waters off Japan, China, and Taiwan, scoring kills either alone or as a member of a wolfpack. She also performed rescue missions from time to time, including the rescue of a downed pilot off Taiwan on 16 Oct 1944 and another on 21 Jan 1945. When the war ended, she just came out of the drydocks, en route back to Pearl Harbor. She was decommissioned by the Navy on 26 Jun 1946 and became a Naval Reserve training ship in May 1947. She was scrapped in 1960.
ww2dbaseSource: Wikipedia.
Last Major Revision: Aug 2006
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| 26 Aug 1942 | Sawfish was commissioned into service. |
| 26 Jun 1946 | Sawfish was decommissioned from service. |
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