USS Torsk
Service
- as Torsk16 December 1944 — 4 March 1968260 days of the war
- Name
- USS Torsk
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-423
- Namesake
- Torsk fish
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 7 June 1944
- Launched
- 6 September 1944
- Commissioned
- 16 December 1944
- Decommissioned
- 4 March 1968
- Struck
- 15 December 1971
- Fate
- Museum ship at Baltimore, Maryland, 26 September 1972 (1972)
- Status
- Preserved
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,570 long tons (1,595 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,414 long tons (2,453 t)
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 20.3 knots (37.5 km/h, 23.3 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 81
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
A food fish of the North Atlantic, also known as the cusk or tusk. The torsk, a member of the cod family, can reach a length of three feet and weigh as much as 30 pounds.
Torsk (SS-423) was laid down on 7 June 1944 at the Portsmouth (N.H.) Navy Yard; launched on 6 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Allen B. Reed; and commissioned on 16 December 1944, Comdr. Bafford E. Lewellen in command.
Completed on the last day of 1944, Torsk trained out of Portsmouth, Newport, and New London until 11 February, when she headed for Florida. On the 16th, the submarine arrived at Port Everglades where she provided services for antisubmarine research. She departed that Florida port on 20 February, transited the Panama Canal, and reached Hawaii on 23 March.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Torsk (SS-423)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × Fairbanks-Morse diesel engines
- 2 × Sargo batteries
- 2 × General Electric electric motors
- two propellers
- Power
- 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced
- 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
- Armament
- 10 × 21 in torpedo tubes (6 forward, 4 aft)
- 1 × 5 in / 25 caliber deck gun
- Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Sister ships
- PNS Ghazi
- USS Amberjack (SS-522)
- USS Argonaut (SS-475)
- USS Conger
- USS Cutlass
- USS Diablo
- USS Grampus (SS-523)
- USS Irex
- USS Medregal
- USS Odax
- USS Pickerel (SS-524)
- USS Quillback
- USS Remora
- USS Requin
- USS Runner (SS-476)
- USS Sea Leopard
- USS Tench
- USS Thornback
- USS Tigrone
- USS Tirante
- USS Toro
- USS Trutta
- USS Volador (SS-490)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Torsk on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Torsk (SS-423) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Davidwells75 — Own work — CC BY-SA 3.0 — Wikimedia Commons