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Home State
California
Year of Birth 1912
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Kent Weekly (SS/DSV) (DBF), EMCS
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Dornin, Robert Edson, CAPT USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town San Francisco
Last Address San Diego, California
Date of Passing Aug 21, 1982
Location of Interment Gazelle Cemetery - Gazelle, California
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Dusty posted by McIntyre, Wayne (Mac), MM3
From Month/Year July / 1943
To Month/Year February / 1944
Unit USS Trigger (SS-237) Unit Page
Rank Lieutenant Commander
NEC Not Specified
Base, Station or City Not SpecifiedState/Country Not Specified
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Career
Builder:
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Laid down:
1 February 1941
Launched:
22 October 1941
Sponsored by:
Mrs. Walter N. Vernou
Commissioned:
31 January 1942
Struck:
11 July 1945
Fate:
Sunk by Japanese vessels in the East China Sea , 28 March 1945
General characteristics
Class & type:
Gato -class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:
1,525 long tons (1,549 t) surfaced
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 (5.2 m) maximum
Propulsion:
4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 9-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical 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
(six forward, four aft)
24 torpedoes
1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun
Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Type
Sub-Surface Vessel
Parent Unit
Submarines
Strength
Submarine
Created/Owned By
ET McPhillips, Thomas, Jr. (SS), ET3(SS) 276
Last Updated: Jul 12, 2020