USS Runner (SS-275)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Runner.
USS Runner (SS-275) was a Gato-class submarine, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the runner, an amberfish inhabiting subtropical waters, so called for its rapid leaps from the water.
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USS Runner (SS-275), probably photographed during her shakedown period while off the Portsmouth Navy Yard between 30 May & October 1942. | |
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United States | |
Name | Runner |
Namesake | Runner |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 8 December 1941[1] |
Launched | 30 May 1942[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Elise Curry Newton |
Commissioned | 30 July 1942[1] |
Fate | Missing June 1943[2] |
Stricken | 30 October 1943 |
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)[6] |
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Test depth | 300 ft (90 m)[6] |
Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[6] |
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