USS Runner (SS-476)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Runner.
USS Runner (SS/AGSS-476), a Tench-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the runner, an amberfish inhabiting subtropical waters.
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United States | |
Name | USS Runner (SS-476) |
Ordered | Runner |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
Laid down | 10 July 1944[1] |
Launched | 17 October 1944[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. R. H. Bass |
Commissioned | 6 February 1945[1] |
Decommissioned | 29 June 1970[1] |
Stricken | 15 December 1971[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 19 June 1973[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tench-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m) [2] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) [2] |
Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum [2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) [6] |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m) [6] |
Complement | 10 officers, 71 enlisted [6] |
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