USS Trutta
Service
- as USS Trutta (SS-421)16 November 1944 — 1 July 1972290 days of the war
- as TCG Cerbe (S 340)1 July 1972 — 23 July 1999
- Name
- USS Trutta
- Builder
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
- Laid down
- 22 May 1944
- Launched
- 18 August 1944
- Commissioned
- 16 November 1944
- Decommissioned
- 1947
- Recommissioned
- 1 March 1951
- Struck
- 1 July 1972
- Fate
- Transferred to Turkey, 1 July 1972 (1972)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications — As completed
- 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)
USS Trutta was a Tench-class diesel-electric submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine on 22 May 1944. She entered service on 16 November 1944, having been launched on 18 August 1944.
24 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Balao-class submarine and was succeeded by the Barracuda class.
The boat displaced 1,570 long tons surfaced and 2,414 long tons submerged. She measured 94.8 m (311 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 20.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 81. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She served with the United States Navy as USS Trutta (SS-421) until 1 July 1972. She then passed to the Turkish Navy, serving as TCG Cerbe (S 340) from 1 July 1972. She was in commission for 290 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1947. She recommissioned on 1 March 1951. She was struck from the register on 1 July 1972.
She was transferred on 1 July 1972.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As completed
- Propulsion
- 4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 10-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators
- 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
- 2 × low-speed direct-drive Elliott electric motors
- two propellers
- 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced
- 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
- Armament
- 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- (6 forward, 4 aft)
- 28 torpedoes
- 1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun
- Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Guppy IIA
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,848 long tons (1,878 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,440 long tons (2,479 t)
- Length
- 93.57 m (307 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 17 knots (31.5 km/h, 19.6 mph)
- Propulsion
- Snorkel added
- One diesel engine and generator removed
- Batteries upgraded to Sargo II
- Armament
- 10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- (six forward, four aft)
- all guns removed
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 Torsk
- USS Volador (SS-490)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Trutta on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Unknown source — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons