USS Flounder
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USS Flounder (SS-251), a Gato-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flounder.
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United States | |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 5 December 1942[1] |
Launched | 22 August 1943[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Astrid H. McClellan |
Commissioned | 29 November 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | 12 February 1947[1] |
Stricken | 1 June 1959[1] |
Fate | Scrapped February 1960[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h)[6] |
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Test depth | 300 ft (90 m)[6] |
Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[6] |
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