USS Tunny (SS-282)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Tunny.
USS Tunny (SS/SSG/APSS/LPSS-282) was a Gato-class submarine which saw service in World War II and in the Vietnam War. Tunny received nine battle stars and two Presidential Unit Citations for her World War II service and five battle stars for her operations during the Vietnam War. Tunny was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tunny, any of several oceanic fishes resembling the mackerel
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United States | |
Builder | Mare Island Naval Shipyard[1] |
Laid down | 10 November 1941[1] |
Launched | 30 June 1942[1] |
Commissioned | 1 September 1942[1] |
Decommissioned | 12 February 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 25 February 1952[1] |
Decommissioned | 30 April 1952[1] |
Recommissioned | 6 March 1953[1] |
Decommissioned | 28 June 1969[1] |
Stricken | 30 June 1969[1] |
Fate | Sunk as a target, 19 June 1970[1] |
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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Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[3] |
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Test depth | 300 feet (91 m)[3] |
Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[3] |
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