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Unit Details

Strength
Submarine
 
Type
Sub-Surface Vessel
 
Year
1700 - Present
 

Description
Piper (SS-409), after Fleet Snorkel conversion.
Career
Builder: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1]
Laid down: 15 March 1944[1]
Launched: 26 June 1944[1]
Commissioned: 23 August 1944[1]
Decommissioned: 16 June 1967[1]
Struck: 1 July 1970[1]
Fate: Sold for scrap, June 1971[1]
General characteristics
Class and type: Balao class diesel-electric submarine[2]
Displacement: 1,526 tons (1,550 t) surfaced[2]
2,401 tons (2,440 t) submerged[2]
Length: 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m)[2]
Beam: 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2]
Draft: 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2]
Propulsion: 4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-â?? 10-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators[2][3]

2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries[4]
2 × low-speed direct-drive Elliott electric motors [2]
two propellers [2]
5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced[2]

2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged[2]
Speed: 20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced[4]
8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged[4]
Range: 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[4]
Endurance: 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged[4]
75 days on patrol
Test depth: 400 ft (120 m)[4]
Complement: 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[4]
Armament: 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
 (six forward, four aft)
 24 torpedoes[4]
1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun[4]
Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon


Notable Persons
None
 
Reports To
Submarines
 
Active Reporting Unit
None
 
Inactive Reporting Unit
None
 
Unit Documents
 USS Piper (SS-409) History


21 Members Who Served in This Unit


 
  • Baker, Robert, CAPT, (1952-1993)
  • Borgens, Gary, PO3, (1962-1967)
  • Burke, James, PO1, (1948-1978)
  • Flynn, Leo, PO1, (1945-1975)
  • Insull, John, PO2, (1961-1967)
  • Pow, Joseph, MCPO, (1955-1987)
  • Whitty, Frank, PO2, (1964-1967)
  • Wimsatt, James M, CMDCM, (1958-1988)
 
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  Asiatic/Pacific Campaign Medal - 1945
 



Name of Award
Asiatic/Pacific Campaign Medal

Devices
none
Year Awarded
1945

Details behind Award:
THIRD WAR PATROL:
Piper departed the area 4 June 1945, arriving at Pearl Harbor on 13 June. On 19 July 1945 she departed on her third war patrol, stopping en route at Guam for advanced training from 1 August to 4 August. On 11 August, Piper accounted for two five-ton fishing vessels in Koshiki Kaikyo, and on 13 August she entered the Sea of Japan. There she rescued six prisoners of war; Japan capitulated the next day.

Last Updated:
Jul 4, 2015
 
 
 
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