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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

Runner (SS-476) (AGSS-476)

Radio Call Sign: November - Yankee - Delta - Kilo

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal

Tench Class Submarine: Laid down, 10 July 1944, at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME.; Launched, 17 October 1944; Commissioned USS Runner (SS-476), 6 February 1945; Converted to a Fleet Snorkel Submarine at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA. in 1952; Decommissioned, 25 January 1969; Redesignated Auxiliary Research Submarine (AGSS-476) in 1969; Reclassified as an Miscellaneous Auxiliary Submarine - 1 February 1969. Towed to Chicago, IL August 1969 by civilian tug Laurence C. Turner and USS Keywadin(ATA 213) to replace Silversides (AGSS 236) as reserve training ship. Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary Submarine, IXSS-476, 30 June 1971. Placed in service in 1969 as a Naval Reserve Training Vessel, at Great Lakes Naval Training Station; Placed out of service and struck from the Naval Register, 15 December 1971; Final Disposition, sold for scraping 19 June 1973 to Diamond Scrapyards, Waukegan, IL for $ 108,000.00. Runner received one battle star for World War II service.
Partial data submitted by Ron Reeves, HTC, USNR (ret.)

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 1,570 t., Submerged: 2,414 t.; Length 311' 8"; Beam 27' 4"; Draft 15' 3"; Speed, Surfaced 20.25 kts, Submerged 8.75 kts; Cruising Range, 11,000 miles surfaced at 10kts; Submerged Endurance, 48 hours at 2kts; Operating Depth, 400 ft; Complement 7 Officers 69 Enlisted; Armament, ten 21" torpedo tubes, six forward, four aft, 24 torpedoes, one 5"/25 deck gun, two 20mm guns, two .30 cal. machine guns; Patrol Endurance 75 days; Propulsion, diesel-electric reduction gear with four Fairbanks Morse main generator engines, 5,400HP, Fuel Capacity, 113,510 gal., two Elliot Motor Co. main motors with 2,740HP, two 126-cell main storage batteries, two propellers.

Size	Image Description	Source
62k	Runner (SS-476), underway, March 1945.	US Navy photo, Image from "U.S. Warships of World War Two", courtesy of Mike Green.
34k	Runner (SS-476), in August 1945 wearing Ms 32/9SS camaflage scheme.	Courtesy of The Floating Drydock, "Fleet Subs of WW II", by Thomas F. Walkowiak.
233	The torpedo's nose is entering the hold. The Runner (SS-476) is off the Conger's (SS-477) starboard side.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
287	The torpedo enters into the hold. The Runner (SS-476) is off the Conger's (SS-477) starboard side.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
95k	Proteus (AS-19) with submarines of Submarine Squadron 20 alongside in Tokyo Bay, on VJ-Day, 2 September 1945. Names of the submarines present, their commanding officers and the commanding officers of SubRon20 and Proteus (AS-19) are printed at the bottom of the image: Archerfish (SS-311), Cavalla (SS-244), Gato (SS-212), Haddo (SS-255), Muskallunge (SS-262), Pilotfish (SS-386), Razorback (SS-394), Runner (SS-476), Segundo (SS-398), Sea Cat (SS-399), and Tigrone (SS-419).	US Navy photo # NH 95019, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of Captain Joseph F. Enright, USN(Retired), 1979.
125k	Several boats at berth at Cristobal, C.Z. Among the boats known to be based there in 1946-47, and what looks to be from left to right are the Conger (SS-477), Cutlass (SS-478), Runner (SS-476) & Amberjack (SS-522).	Photo courtesy of Jim Carroll and submitted by Mike Keating.
96k	Several boats docked pierside in 1948. From inboard to outboard: Sennet (SS-408), Runner (SS-476), possibly the Cutlass (SS-478) inboard from the Sea Cat (SS-399).	Photo courtesy of John Hummel.Photo added 09/25/09.
62k	Runner (SS-476), underway, starboard view, as a Regulus missile guidance submarine, circa late 50's-early 60's.	Photo courtesy of John Hummel.
13k	Commemorative postal cover of the Runner (SS-476) with the boat's patch, 1957.	Photo courtesy of Jack Treutle.
69k	Runner (SS-476), 1 August 1960 where she operated with the fleet along the Atlantic coast for the next 3 years.	USN photo courtesy of Joe Radigan. Text courtesy of DANFS.
44k	Redfin, (SS-272) inboard of Runner (SS-476), Requin (SS-481) and Argonaut (SS-475) with other subs of SubRon 6, circa mid-late 1960's,location unknown.	Contributed by John Hummel, USN (Retired).
70k	Runner (SS-476), docked at Great Lakes Naval Training Station.	Courtesy of Joe Radigan.
433k	The year 1968 commenced with Runner (SS-476) providing services for UDT school at Little Creek, Va., and ASW training off the east coast. On 4 April 1968, *Runner* departed on her last Mediterranean deployment. She returned to Norfolk 31 July having visited ports in Spain and Portugal, and participating in NATO Exercise Dawn Patrol. *Runner* is pictured at Genoa, Italy, on 29 June 1968.	Photo courtesy of Carlo Martinelli.
75k	The Runner (SS-476) is stuck in traffic at the Chicago Naval Armory.	Photo courtesy of Ray "Olgoat" Stone from submarinesailor.com.