Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945
SS-248 USS
Dorado
Gato class Submarine:
Displacement: 1,526 tons surfaced, 2,424 tons submerged
Length: 311'
Beam: 27'3"
Draft: 16'10"
Speed: 20 knots surfaced, 9 knots submerged
Armament: 1 3"/50 or 1 4"/50 or 1 5"/50, 6 bow and 4 stern torpedo tubes, 24 21" torpedoes (loaded tubes plus reloads: 10 forward, 4 aft)
Complement: 80
Diesel engines, surfaced/electric motors, submerged
Built at Electric Boat Co., and commissioned 28 August 1943
: No contact after departing New London for Panama Canal (bombed and sunk by U.S. Mariner in Caribbean, 12 October 43?)
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Dorado
United States Submarine Losses--World War II
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Dorado
The Silent Service: From the Abbott Laboratories Collection
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Dorado
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: No contact after departing New London for Panama Canal
(bombed and sunk by U.S. Mariner in Caribbean, 12 October 43?)
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