USS Gurnard (SS-254)
Service
- 18 September 1942 — 27 November 19451,080 days of the war
- Name
- USS Gurnard
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-254
- Builder
- Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 2 September 1941
- Launched
- 1 June 1942
- Commissioned
- 18 September 1942
- Decommissioned
- 27 November 1945
- Struck
- 1 May 1961
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 29 October 1961 (1961)
- 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)
A trigloid fish having three free pectoral rays, a food fish of the genus Trigla. The striped gurnard inhabits the South Atlantic.
Gurnard was launched 1 June 1942 by the Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.; sponsored by Miss Suzanne Slingluff; and commissioned 18 September 1942, Lt. Comdr. C. H. Andrews in command.
Following shakedown out of New London, Gurnard sailed for Rosneath, Scotland, 2 November 1942 and reached that port 13 days later. Her first war patrol, 28 November to 27 December 1942, brought her to the Bay of Biscay where she lay off the Spanish coast awaiting German blockade runners bound for Spanish ports. The patrol was uneventful; no enemy ships were sighted and subsequently Gurnard returned to New London 9 February 1943 for repairs and alterations.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Gurnard I (SS-254)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
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 Gurnard (SS-254) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Gurnard I (SS-254) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy photo — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08254a.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons