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V-4 (SF 7)
Argonaut (SM / APS 1)


SF-7 Class Fleet Submarine: Laid down, 1 May 1925 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME; ; Launched, 10 November 1927; Commissioned USS V-4 (SF 7), 2 April 1928; Renamed Argonaut and reclassified as a Mine Laying Submarine SM-1, 1 July 1931; Converted to a Transport Submarine at Mare Island Navy Yard, 1942; Reclassified APS-1, 22 September 1942; Sunk by aircraft (582d Kokutai) and Japanese destroyers Isokaze and Maikaze southeast of New Britain in the Solomon Sea, 10 January 1943; Struck from the Naval Register, 26 February 1943. Argonaut won two battle stars for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 2, 710 tons (surface), 4,080 (submerged); Length 381'; Beam 33' 10"; Draft 15' 4"; Speed 15 kts (surface), 8 kts (submerged); Complement 89; Armament two 6"/53s, two machine guns, 16 torpedoes, and 60 mines; Propulsion diesel, two shafts, 3,175shp.
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Argonaut 28k . Hyperwar US Navy in WW II
Argonaut 15k . Hyperwar US Navy in WW II
Argonaut 66k V-4 (SF-7) became Argonaut (SM-1) in 1931. She is shown here in peacetime gray, circa 1930. Note the 6-inch guns forward and aft of the conning tower, and what appear to be exercise torpedoes on deck just forward of mount one. Also note her alphanumeric "name," V-4, in white on a black rectangle on the tower structure, and repeated in black at the bow.
US Navy Photo NH 54425
DANFS
Argonaut 196k Argonaut, along with Nautilus, (SS-168) and Narwhal (SS-167), enjoyed the distinction of mounting the largest guns of any American submarine; here, Argonaut's men draw a crowd as they train out her forward 6-incher in the 1930's.
US Navy Photo NH 62906
DANFS

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