Specifications:
Keel Laid: 08 FEB 44- Launched: 15 DEC 44
- Commissioned: 10 FEB 51
- Decommissioned: 15 MAY 73
- Stricken: 15 MAY 73 - Sold to Venezuelan Navy
- Builder: Boston Navy Yard
- Propulsion system: 4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 10-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines
- Propulsion system: 1 × 184 cell, 1 × 68 cell, and 2 × 126 cell GUPPY-type batteries (total 504 cells)
- Propulsion system: 2 × low-speed direct-drive Westinghouse electric motors
- Screw: two
- Length: 307 ft (94 meters)
- Beam: 27 ft (8.33 meters)
- Draft: 17 ft (5.2 meters)
- Displacement, surfaced: approx. 1870 tons
- Displacement, submerged: approx. 2440 tons
- Speed: Surfaced: in excess of 18 knots
- Speed: Submerged: in excess of 13.5 knots
- Armament: 10 x 21 inch (533mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft)
- Crew: 9-10 Officers, 70 Enlisted
Sources: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, www.navysite.de
