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Photo # NH 79755:  Launching of USS Dorado, at Groton, Connecticut, 23 May 1943

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USS Dorado (SS-248), 1943-1943

USS Dorado, a 1525-ton Gato class submarine, was built at Groton, Connecticut. Commissioned in late August 1943, she left nearby New London on 6 October of that year, en route to the Pacific by way of the Panama Canal. No further communications were received from Dorado, which was probably sunk on 12 October 1943 by a U.S. Navy patrol plane flying out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. If so, she was a victim of the kind of tragic mistaken identity that always menaced friendly submarines passing through waters that were also frequented by enemy undersea raiders.

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Photo #: NH 79755

USS Dorado (SS-248)


Enters the water for the first time, as she is launched at the Electric Boat Company shipyard, Groton, Connecticut, 23 May 1943.
Photographed by the Electric Boat Company.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 124KB; 605 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-468485

USS Dorado (SS-248)


Closeup view of her midships area, taken while she was fitting out at the Electric Boat Company shipyard, Groton, Connecticut, in August 1943.
Note women workers in the foreground, and the ship's bell at left.
Photographed by Lieutenant Commander Charles Fenno Jacobs, USNR.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 108KB; 645 x 675 pixels

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