USS Bonita (SSK-3): Difference between revisions

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|Ship caption=''Bonita'' with characteristic bulky electronics compartment at her bow ([[Mare Island Naval Shipyard]])

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|Ship flag={{USN flag|1958}}

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|Ship builder=[[Mare Island Naval Shipyard]] <ref name="Register">{{Citation

| last = Bauer

| first = K. Jack

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| last2 = Roberts

| first2 = Stephen S.

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| title = Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants

| place = Westport, CT

| publisher = Greenwood Press

| year = 1991

| isbn = 0-313-26202-0 }}</ref>

|Ship laid down=[[19 May]] [[1950]] <ref name="Register"/>

|Ship launched=[[21 June]] [[1951]] <ref name="Register"/>

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|Ship commissioned=[[11 January]] [[1952]] <ref name="Register"/>

|Ship decommissioned=[[7 November]] [[1958]]

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|Ship struck=[[1 April]] [[1965]] <ref name="Register"/>

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|Ship fate=Sold for scrap, [[17 November] [[1966]] <ref name="Register"/>

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|Ship class=[[Barracuda class submarine|''Barracuda''-class]] [[diesel-electric]] [[hunter-killer]] [[submarine]]

|Ship displacement=765&nbsp;[[long ton|tons]] (777&nbsp;[[tonne|t]]) surfaced<br>1,160&nbsp;tons (1179&nbsp;t) submerged

|Ship length=196&nbsp;[[Foot (unit of length)|ft]] 1&nbsp;[[Inch|in]] (59.8&nbsp;[[metre|m]]) overall <ref name="Register"/>

|Ship beam=24&nbsp;ft 7&nbsp;in (7.5&nbsp;m) <ref name="Register"/>

|Ship draft=14&nbsp;ft 5&nbsp;in (4.4&nbsp;m) mean<ref name="Register"/>

|Ship propulsion=3 × [[General Motors]] [[diesel engines]], total 1050&nbsp;bhp (0.8&nbsp;[[Watt|MW]])<br>2 × [[General Electric]] [[electric motor]]s<br>two screws <ref name="Register"/>

|Ship speed=13&nbsp;[[knot (speed)|knot]]s (24&nbsp;km/h) surfaced<br>8.5&nbsp;knots (16&nbsp;km/h) submerged <ref name="Register"/>

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|Ship test depth=400&nbsp;ft (120&nbsp;m) <ref name="Register"/>

|Ship complement=37 officers and men <ref name="Register"/>

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|Ship armament=4×21&nbsp;in (533&nbsp;mm) torpedo tubes

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The three SSK boats, {{USS|Barracuda|SSK-1|3}}, {{USS|Bass|SSK-2|3}}, and ''Bonita'' (SSK-3), were built around the large BQR-4 bow-mounted [[sonar]] array as part of [[Project Kayo]], which experimented the use of passive acoustics with low-frequency, bow sonar arrays. When the boat was rigged for silent running, these arrays gave greatly-improved convergence zone detection ranges against snorkeling submarines. The SSKs themselves were limited in their anti-submarine warfare abilities by their low speed and their need to snorkel periodically, but the advances in sonar technology they pioneered were invaluable to later nuclear-powered submarines.

''K-3'' joined Submarine Squadron 7 at [[Pearl Harbor]] on [[15 May]] [[1952]] and performed experimental and normal submarine duties, making a cruise to [[Alaska]]n waters in August and September 1956. She was renamed ''Bonita'' [[15 December]] [[1955]], decommissioned on [[7 November]] [[1958]], and given [[hull classification symbol]] SS-552 on [[15 August]] [[1959]].

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