USS Gabilan (SS-252)
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down: | 5 January 1943 |
| Launched: | 19 September 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 28 December 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 February 1946 |
| Struck: | 1 June 1959 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 11 January 1960 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,525 long tons (1,549 t) surfaced 2,424 long tons (2,463 t) submerged |
| Length: | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum |
| Propulsion: |
4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators |
| Speed: | 21 kn (39 km/h) 9 kn (17 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 48 hours at 2 knots (4 km/h) submerged 75 days on patrol |
| Test depth: | 300 ft (90 m) |
| Complement: | 6 officers, 54 enlisted |
| Armament: | 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft) 24 torpedoes 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon |
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 fish of the Gulf of California.
Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn. on 5 January 1943. She was launched 19 September 1943 (sponsored by Mrs. Jules James, wife of Rear Admiral Jules James) and commissioned on 28 December 1943, Commander (CDR) K. R. Wheland in command.
Read more about USS Gabilan (SS-252): First and Second War Patrols, April – August 1944, Third and Fourth War Patrols, September 1944 – February 1945, Fifth and Sixth War Patrols, March – August 1945