The only significant difference was five feet in length added to the engine room section to allow the addition of a watertight bulkhead, dividing the one large engine room in two, with two diesel generator sets in each room. The Gato class design was a near duplicate of the preceding Tambor (Gar) class boats. The 73 Gato class submarines were built between September 1940 and March 1944 and formed the bulk of the United States Navy's World War II submarine fleet.
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