USS Wahoo (SS-565)

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USS Wahoo circa 1955.
History
United States
Name	Wahoo
Namesake	The Wahoo fish
Builder	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Laid down	24 October 1949
Launched	16 October 1951
Commissioned	30 May 1952
Decommissioned	27 June 1980
Stricken	15 July 1983
Identification	SS-565
Fate	Sold for scrap in 1984
General characteristics
Class and type	Tang-class submarine Attack submarine
Displacement	1,560 long tons (1,585 t) surfaced 2,260 long tons (2,296 t) submerged
Length	269 ft 2 in (82.04 m)
Beam	27 ft 2 in (8.28 m)
Draft	17 ft (5.2 m)
Speed	15.5 knots (17.8 mph; 28.7 km/h) surfaced, 18.3 knots (21.1 mph; 33.9 km/h) submerged
Complement	83 officers and men
Armament	8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 forward, 2 aft)

USS Wahoo (SS-565), a Tang-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the wahoo, a fast-moving predatory sportfish found in oceans worldwide.