USS Gabilan
Service
- as USS Gabilan28 December 1943 — 23 February 1946614 days of the war
- Name
- USS Gabilan
- Builder
- Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 5 January 1943
- Launched
- 19 September 1943
- Commissioned
- 28 December 1943
- Decommissioned
- 23 February 1946
- Struck
- 1 June 1959
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 11 January 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,525 long tons (1,549 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,424 long tons (2,463 t)
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Gabilan was a Gato-class diesel-electric submarine built for the United States Navy. Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut laid her keel on 5 January 1943. Launched on 19 September 1943, she entered service on 28 December 1943.
76 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Mackerel-class submarine and was succeeded by the Balao-class submarine.
The boat displaced 1,525 long tons surfaced and 2,424 long tons submerged. She measured 94.8 m (311 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 21 knots, and she carried a complement of 60. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 614 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 23 February 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 June 1959.
She was broken up for scrap on 11 January 1960.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 Diesel engines driving electric generators
- 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
- 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears
- two propellers
- 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced
- 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
- Armament
- 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 6 forward, 4 aft
- 24 torpedoes
- 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun
- Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Sister ships
- USS Albacore (SS-218)
- USS Amberjack (SS-219)
- USS Angler
- USS Barb (SS-220)
- USS Bashaw
- USS Blackfish
- USS Bluefish (SS-222)
- USS Bluegill
- USS Bonefish (SS-223)
- USS Bream
- USS Cavalla (SS-244)
- USS Cero (SS-225)
- USS Cobia
- USS Cod
- USS Corvina
- USS Croaker
- USS Dace (SS-247)
- USS Darter (SS-227)
- USS Dorado (SS-248)
- USS Drum (SS-228)
- USS Finback (SS-230)
- USS Flasher (SS-249)
- USS Flier
- USS Flounder
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Gabilan on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08252.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons