USS Marlin (SS-205)
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| Career |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 23 May 1940 |
| Launched: | 29 January 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 1 August 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | sold for scrap |
| Stricken: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 825 tons surfaced, 1179 tons submerged |
| Length: | 238 feet 11 inches |
| Beam: | 21 feet 8 inches |
| Draft: | 12 feet 1 inch |
| Speed: | 16 knots surfaced, 9 knots submerged |
| Complement: | 38 officers and men |
| Armament: | one three-inch deck gun, two .30-caliber machineguns, six 21-inch torpedo tubes |
USS Marlin (SS-205), a Mackerel-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the marlin, a large game fish. Her keel was laid down by Portsmouth Navy Yard in New Hampshire, on 23 May 1940. She was launched on 29 January 1941 sponsored by Mrs. John D. Wainwright, and commissioned on 1 August 1941 with Lieutenant George A. Sharp in command.
After service in the Atlantic Fleet off New London, Connecticut, for half a year, Marlin departed New London 21 March for Casco Bay, Maine. She arrived the next day for duty with TG 27.1, training new escort vessels in antisubmarine warfare. She returned to New London 18 April, and operated in Long Island Sound through 1942.
On 7 January 1943 the submarine arrived in Casco Bay for further duty with TG 27.1 until 16 January. She then spent the next 2½ years patrolling and training ships off New London and Portsmouth, New Hampshire On 26 July 1944, while making a submerged practice approach on Chaffee (DE-230), she collided with SC-642 with slight damage to both ships. In September Marlin kept company with Chetco (AT-99) on one of her trips from Portsmouth, reaching New London 10 September.
On 20 October Marlin departed New London with Skipjack (SS-184) for Bridgeport, Connecticut, arriving that day. Five days later she continued on to Boston, Mass, arriving 31 October. She decommissioned at the Boston Navy Yard 9 November. Marlin was sold 29 March 1946 to the Boston Metal Company of Baltimore, Maryland, for scrapping.
See USS Marlin for other ships of the same name.
References
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
| Mackerel-class submarine |
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Mackerel | Marlin |
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