USS Gabilan
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USS Gabilan (SS-252), a Gato-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the gabilan, an eagle ray of the Gulf of California.
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United States | |
Name | USS Gabilan |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 5 January 1943[1] |
Launched | 19 September 1943[1] |
Commissioned | 28 December 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | 23 February 1946[1] |
Stricken | 1 June 1959[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 11 January 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 knots (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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