About Gurnard

General Characteristics: Awarded: October 24, 1963

Keel Laid: December 22, 1964

Launched: May 20, 1967

Commissioned: December 6, 1968

Decommissioned: April 28, 1995

Builder: Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California

Propulsion system: one S5W2 nuclear reactor

Propellers: one

Length: 292 feet (89 meters)

Beam: 31.7 feet (9.65 meters)

Draft: 29.2 feet (8.9 meters)

Displacement: Surfaced: approx. 4,250 tons

Displacement: Submerged: approx. 4,700 tons

Speed: Surfaced: approx. 15 knots

Speed: Submerged: approx. 30 knots

Armament: four 533 mm torpedo tubes for Mk-48 torpedoes, Harpoon, Tomahawk, and SUBROC missiles, ability to lay mines

Crew: 12 Officers, 95 Enlisted