USS Icefish

History
United States
Name	USS Icefish (SS-367)
Builder	Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Laid down	4 September 1943
Launched	20 February 1944
Commissioned	10 June 1944
Decommissioned	21 June 1946
Recommissioned	5 May 1952
Decommissioned	29 July 1952
Recommissioned	10 December 1952
Decommissioned	21 February 1953
Fate	Transferred to the Netherlands, 21 February 1953, sold for scrap, 12 November 1971
Stricken	15 July 1971
Netherlands
Name	HNLMS Walrus (S802)
Commissioned	21 February 1953
Decommissioned	15 July 1971
Fate	Returned to United States custody and sold for scrap, 15 August 1971
General characteristics
Class and type	Balao class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement	1,526 tons (1,550 t) surfaced; 2,424 tons (2,463 t) submerged;
Length	311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)
Beam	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft	16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum
Propulsion	4 × General Motors Model 16-278A V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators; 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries; 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears; 2 × propellers; 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced; 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged;
Speed	20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced; 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged;
Range	11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Endurance	48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged; 75 days on patrol;
Test depth	400 ft (120 m)
Complement	10 officers, 70–71 enlisted
Armament	10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 6 forward, 4 aft; 24 torpedoes; 1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun; Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon;

USS Icefish (SS-367), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the icefish, any member of the family Salangidae, small smeltlike fishes of China and Japan. These fish are also collectively known as whitebait.

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