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Baya

Country United States Ship Class Balao-class Submarine Hull Number SS-318 Builder Name Electric Boat Company Laid Down 8 Apr 1943 Launched 2 Jan 1944 Commissioned 20 May 1944 Decommissioned 30 Oct 1972 Displacement 1,526 tons standard; 2,424 tons submerged Length 312 feet Beam 27 feet Draft 17 feet Machinery Four General Motors Model 16-278A V16 diesel engines (5,400shp), four high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears (2,740shp), two 126-cell Sargo batteries, two propellers Speed 20 knots Range 11,000nm at 10 knots surfaced, 48 hours submerged Crew 81 Armament 6x533mm forward torpedo tubes, 4x533mm aft torpedo tubes, 24 torpedoes, 1x127mm deck gun Submerged Speed 8.75 knots

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

ww2dbaseUSS Baya was commissioned into service in mid-1944. She arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States in Aug 1944 and embarked on her first war patrol before the end of the month. When the war ended, she had to her credit four sinkings while also sharing the sinking of another ship with USS Hawkbill. After the war, she departed Subic Bay in the Philippine Islands in Sep 1945 to return to the United States for decommissioning at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. She was brought back to service in Feb 1948 for conversion into an electronics experimental submarine under the command of the Naval Electronics Laboratory in San Diego, California; in this role, she helped gather scientific data off western Canada, in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, and in the Hawaiian Islands. Between 1958 and 1959, she was converted at Mare Island Naval Shipyard to test the experimental long-range sonar LORAD. She would serve in this capacity until her decommissioning in 1972.

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Last Major Revision: Nov 2011

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