USS Gunnel
Service
- 20 August 1942 — 18 May 19461,109 days of the war
- Name
- USS Gunnel
- Builder
- Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 21 July 1941
- Launched
- 17 May 1942
- Commissioned
- 20 August 1942
- Decommissioned
- 18 May 1946
- Struck
- 1 September 1958
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, December 1959 (1959)
- 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 Gunnel was a Gato-class diesel-electric submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut on 21 July 1941. Launched on 17 May 1942, she entered service on 20 August 1942.
She was one of 76 ships of her class. 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 1,109 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 18 May 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 September 1958.
She was broken up for scrap in December 1959.
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 × Hooven-Owens-Rentschler (H.O.R.) diesel engines driving electrical 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 Gunnel on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: USN photo # 1708-44 — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08254a.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons