USS Rasher
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USS Rasher (SS/SSR/AGSS/IXSS-269), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the rasher, or vermilion rockfish, a fish found along the California coast.
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USS Rasher sometime after her 1953 recommissioning. | |
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United States | |
Namesake | Rasher (Sebastes miniatus) |
Builder | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin[1] |
Laid down | 4 May 1942[1] |
Launched | 20 December 1942[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. G. C. Weaver |
Commissioned | 8 June 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | 22 June 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 14 December 1951[1] |
Decommissioned | 28 May 1952[1] |
Recommissioned | 22 July 1953[1] |
Decommissioned | 27 May 1967[1] |
Stricken | 20 December 1971[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap 7 August 1974[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 NM (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[7] |
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Test depth | 300 ft (90 m)[7] |
Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[7] |
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