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USS GUNNELL

(SS-253)

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SS-253 Deployments - Major Events

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Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
JUL 1941 Keel Date: 21 JUL 1941
at Electric Boat Company Groton CT
MAY 1942 Launch Date: 17 MAY 1942
AUG 1942 Commissioned: 20 AUG 1942
MAY 1946 Decommissioned: 18 MAY 1946

SS-253 General Specifications

Class: Gato-class submarine

Complement: 6 Officers and 54 Enlisted

Displacement: 1525 tons

Length: 311 feet 9 inches

Beam: 27 feet 3 inches

Draft: 17 feet 0 in

Range: 11 000 Nautical Miles

Final Disposition: Sold for scrap December 1959