USS Torsk
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USS Torsk, hull number SS-423, is a Tench-class submarine built for the United States Navy during World War II. Armed with ten torpedo tubes, the Tench-class submarines were incremental developments of the highly-successful Gato-class submarines that formed the backbone of the US Navy's submarine force during the war. Torsk was laid down at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in June 1944, was launched in September that year, and commissioned in December.
USS Torsk (SS-423) at Pier Three in Baltimore Harbor, September 2012 | |
History | |
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United States | |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
Laid down | 7 June 1944 |
Launched | 6 September 1944 |
Commissioned | 16 December 1944 |
Decommissioned | 4 March 1968[1] |
Stricken | 15 December 1971 |
Fate | Museum ship at Baltimore, Maryland, 26 September 1972 |
Status | Undergoing restoration |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tench-class diesel-electric submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m) |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) |
Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum |
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Speed |
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Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
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Test depth | 400 ft (120 m) |
Complement | 10 officers, 71 enlisted |
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USS Torsk | |
Location | Pier IV, Pratt St., Baltimore, Maryland |
Coordinates | 39°17′06.2″N 76°36′31.4″W |
NRHP reference No. | 86000090[2] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | 14 January 1986 |
Designated NHL | 14 January 1986 |
In 1945, Torsk made two war patrols off Japan, sinking one cargo vessel and two coastal defense frigates. The latter of these, torpedoed on 14 August 1945, was the last enemy ship sunk by the United States Navy in World War II. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she operated primarily as a training vessel; she also went on deployments to the Mediterranean Sea and helped to train elements of the Atlantic Fleet in anti-submarine tactics. Decommissioned in 1968, she replaced USS Drum at the Washington Naval Yard, where she would serve for another three years training members of the Naval Reserve. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in December 1971 and turned over to the state of Maryland for use as a museum ship. She is now part of the fleet of Historic Ships in Baltimore.