USS Flasher (SS-249)
41°21′46″N 72°05′00″W / 41.3626461°N 72.0834536°W
Flasher (SS-249) underway, c. 1944. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down | 30 September 1942 |
| Launched | 20 June 1943 |
| Commissioned | 25 September 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 16 March 1946 |
| Stricken | 1 June 1959 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap 8 June 1963, conning tower is a memorial at Groton, Connecticut |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum |
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| Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
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| Test depth | 300 ft (90 m) |
| Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted |
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USS Flasher (SS-249) was a Gato-class submarine which served in the Pacific during World War II. She received the Presidential Unit Citation and six battle stars, and sank 21 ships for a total of 100,231 tons of Japanese shipping, making her one of the most successful American submarines of the War. She was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flasher.