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Home State
California
Year of Birth 1916
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Boyd, John, LT.
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Casualty Info
Home Town San Francisco, CA
Last Address Alameda, CA
Casualty Date Oct 12, 1943
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Atlantic Ocean
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment East Coast Memorial (Tablets of the missing) - Manhattan, New York
Wall/Plot Coordinates (cenotaph)
Military Service Number 85 523
From Month/Year August / 1943
To Month/Year October / 1943
Unit USS Dorado (SS-248) Unit Page
Rank Lieutenant
NEC Not Specified
Base, Station or City Not SpecifiedState/Country Not Specified
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Career (United States)
Builder:
General Dynamics Electric Boat , Groton, Connecticut
Laid down:
27 August 1942
Launched:
23 May 1943
Sponsored by:
Mrs. Ezra G. Allen
Commissioned:
28 August 1943
Fate:
Sunk, probably by U.S. aircraft, off Panama on 12 October 1943
General characteristics
Class and 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 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 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) surface , 9 kn (17 km/h) submerged
Range:
11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced @ 10 kn (19 km/h)
Endurance:
48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged , 75 days on patrol
Test depth:
300 ft (91 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: Sep 4, 2022