What are the features of USS Requin (SS 481) submarine?

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What are the features of USS Requin (SS 481) submarine?

USS Requin (SS 481) Vital Statistics

Class: Tench
Class: Tench
Building Yard: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Building Yard: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Length: 311 feet 9 inches
Length: 311 feet 9 inches
Width: 27 feet 3 inches
Width: 27 feet 3 inches
Height: 49 feet
Height: 49 feet
Weight: 1,516 tons surfaced, 2,426 submerged
Weight: 1,516 tons surfaced, 2,426 submerged
Engines: Four 1,600-horsepower diesels
Engines: Four 1,600-horsepower diesels
Generators: Four 1,100-kilowatt direct current
Generators: Four 1,100-kilowatt direct current
Batteries: Two 126 lead acid battery cells in each
Batteries: Two 126 lead acid battery cells in each
Motors: Two 2,700 horsepower
Motors: Two 2,700 horsepower
Fuel Capacity: 113,881 gallons
Maximum Speed: 21 knots surfaced, 10 knots submerged
Maximum Depth: 412 feet
Crew: 10 officers, 71–95 enlisted men
Tour Length: 75–90 days
Maximum Time Submerged: 48 hours at a time

USS Requin Compartments

1. Conning Tower: Contains periscopes, steering, and torpedo-launching equipment. The Radio Room, which is still operational, is to the right on the way to the next compartment.
1. Conning Tower: Contains periscopes, steering, and torpedo-launching equipment. The Radio Room, which is still operational, is to the right on the way to the next compartment.
2. Mess Decks: 24 men at a time could eat meals, spend free time, and watch movies from four tables.
2. Mess Decks: 24 men at a time could eat meals, spend free time, and watch movies from four tables.
3. Berthing: 36 bunks for crew were housed between the mess decks and crew’s shower and toilet facilities.
4. Forward and After Engine Rooms: Four diesel engines, four generators, and two desalination tanks take up two compartments.
5. Stern Room: Four torpedo tubes faced out the back of the submarine until 1946, when it was converted to a radar control center. Twenty-one bunks for crew hung from hooks on the walls.
5. Stern Room: Four torpedo tubes faced out the back of the submarine until 1946, when it was converted to a radar control center. Twenty-one bunks for crew hung from hooks on the walls.
6. After Battery: 126 lead acid battery cells were stored beneath Berthing.
6. After Battery: 126 lead acid battery cells were stored beneath Berthing.
7. Cold Storage/Pantry: 4.5 tons of food were stored beneath the Mess Decks and throughout the submarine.
7. Cold Storage/Pantry: 4.5 tons of food were stored beneath the Mess Decks and throughout the submarine.
8. Control Room: Diving and surfacing controls line the walls around the submarine’s main gyrocompass.
8. Control Room: Diving and surfacing controls line the walls around the submarine’s main gyrocompass.
9. Forward Battery: 126 lead acid battery cells were stored beneath Officers Country.
9. Forward Battery: 126 lead acid battery cells were stored beneath Officers Country.
10. Forward Torpedo Room: Six torpedo tubes face out the front of the submarine. The compartment could hold up to 18 torpedoes and had bunks for 14 crew.
11. Officers Country: Quarters for 10 officers and five senior enlisted men include staterooms, pantry, wardroom, and office.

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