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Date line Atlanta. Nautilus Models 1/72 resin conversion for Revell's Gato is now available.
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Nautilus Models proudly announces it's 1/72 USS Batfish conversion set for the Revell Gato kit.
Available from Nautilus Models for $95 USD.

Balao Class Submarine: Laid down, 27 December 1942, at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME.; Launched, 5 May 1943; Commissioned USS Batfish (SS-310), 21 August 1943; Decommissioned, 6 April 1946, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Mare Island Group; Recommissioned, 7 March 1952; Redesignated Auxiliary Research Submarine (AGSS-310), 1 July 1960; Decommissioned, 1 November 1969; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 February 1972; Final Disposition, placed as a permanent memorial at Muskogee, OK. Batfish was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation and earned six battle stars for her World War II service

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 1,526 t., Submerged: 2,424 t.; Length 311' 10"; Beam 27' 3"; 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 Limit, 400 ft; Complement 6 Officers 60 Enlisted; Armament, ten 21" torpedo tubes, six forward, four aft, 24 torpedoes, one 5"/25 deck gun, one 40mm gun, two .50 cal. machine guns; Patrol Endurance 75 days; Propulsion, diesels-electric reduction gear with four Fairbanks-Morse main generator engines., 5,400 hp, Fuel Capacity, 94,400 gal., four Elliot Motor Co., main motors with 2,740 hp, two 126-cell main storage batteries, two propellers.