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Service Details
Last Rank
Rear Admiral Upper Half
Last Primary NEC
112X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Submarine Warfare
Last Rating/NEC Group
Line Officer
Primary Unit
1967-1969, 112X, 1st Naval District
Service Years
1929 - 1969
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Decommissioning
Order of the Square Rigger
Iwo Jima
Swamp Fox
Last Photo
Personal Details
Home State
New Hampshire
Year of Birth 1906
This Military Service Page was created/owned by
Kent Weekly (SS/DSV) (DBF), EMCS
to remember
Benson, Roy, RADM USN(Ret).
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Date of Passing Feb 07, 1995
Last Known Activity:
Other Comments:
From Month/Year - / 1942
To Month/Year - / 1943
Unit USS Trigger (SS-237) Unit Page
Rank Commander
NEC 112X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Submarine Warfare
Base, Station or City Not SpecifiedState/Country Not Specified
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Career
Builder:
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Laid down:
1 February 1941
Launched:
22 October 1941
Sponsored by:
Mrs. Walter N. Vernou
Commissioned:
31 January 1942
Struck:
11 July 1945
Fate:
Sunk by Japanese vessels in the East China Sea , 28 March 1945
General characteristics
Class & type:
Gato -class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:
1,525 long tons (1,549 t) surfaced
2,424 long tons (2,463 t) submerged
Length:
311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)
Beam:
27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft:
17 ft (5.2 m) maximum
Propulsion:
4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 9-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators
2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears
two propellers
5,400 shp (4.0 MW ) surfaced
2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
Speed:
21 kn (39 km/h) surfaced
9 kn (17 km/h) submerged
Range:
11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Endurance:
48 hours at 2 kn (4 km/h) submerged
75 days on patrol
Test depth:
300 ft (90 m)
Complement:
6 officers, 54 enlisted
Armament:
10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
(six forward, four aft)
24 torpedoes
1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun
Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Type
Sub-Surface Vessel
Parent Unit
Submarines
Strength
Submarine
Created/Owned By
ET McPhillips, Thomas, Jr. (SS), ET3(SS) 276
Last Updated: Apr 30, 2008
Other Memories 2 Roy S. Benson Pearl Harbor Sep-42 46 1 for 5,000 1 for 5,900 Pearl Harbor 3 Roy S. Benson Pearl Harbor Dec-42 51 4 for 23,700 2 for 6,500 Pearl Harbor 4 Roy S. Benson Pearl Harbor Feb-43 56 0/0 1 for 3,000 Pearl Harbor 5 Roy S. Benson Pearl Harbor Apr-43 53 1 for 8,200 1 for 2,000 Pearl Harbor