USS Flounder

History
United States
Builder	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
Laid down	5 December 1942
Launched	22 August 1943
Sponsored by	Mrs. Astrid H. McClellan
Commissioned	29 November 1943
Decommissioned	12 February 1947
Stricken	1 June 1959
Fate	Scrapped February 1960
General characteristics
Class & type	Gato-class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement	1,525 long tons (1,549 t); 2,424 long tons (2,463 t) submerged;
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
Propulsion	4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 Diesel engines driving electric generators; 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries; 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears; two propellers ; 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced; 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged;
Speed	21 kn (39 km/h) surfaced; 9 kn (17 km/h) submerged;
Range	11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Endurance	48 hours at 2 kn (4 km/h) submerged; 75 days on patrol;
Test depth	300 ft (90 m)
Complement	6 officers, 54 enlisted
Armament	10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 6 forward, 4 aft; 24 torpedoes; 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun; Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon;

USS Flounder (SS-251), a Gato-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flounder.