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Plunger

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TypeSubmarine (SS)
HullSS-179
FateAfloat. Stationed between Midway and Hawaii, and not in the carrier fight. Decommissioned 15 November 1945. Struck 6 July 1956.

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

Plunger
U.S. Navy. USS Plunger (SS-179) docking after her launch at Portsmouth, 8 July 1936. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

USS Plunger (SS-179) was a submarine of the United States Navy. On 4 June 1942, during the Battle of Midway, she was stationed in the waters between Midway and Hawaii. Her assignment there was as a backstop. She was not in the carrier fight.

Plunger survived the war. She was decommissioned on 15 November 1945. Her name was struck on 6 July 1956.

The pictures on this page are the originals.