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Specifications
Class: Balao

Launched: 07 November 1943 at Cramp Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia, PA

Commissioned: 13 October 1944

Decommissioned: 16 January, 1946

Recommissioned: 15 December 1951

Decommissioned: 15 December 1953

Length: 311 feet, 8 inches

Beam: 27 feet, 2 inches

Draft: 17 feet (surface trim)

Speed: 20 knots (surfaced), 8.75 knots (submerged)

Test Depth: 400 feet

Armament: 10 21-inch torpedos (6 foreward, 4 aft), 1 5.0-inch/25 calibre gun, 4 .50 calibre machine guns

Compliment: 6 officers, 60 enlisted men