USS Gudgeon (SS-567)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Gudgeon.
USS Gudgeon (SS/AGSS/SSAG-567), a Tang-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the gudgeon, a species of small fresh-water minnow.
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USS Gudgeon underway, c. 1970s (the three distinctive shark-fin-like domes are the PUFFS sonar, one just aft of the sail, below the flag). | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Gudgeon |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard |
Laid down | 20 May 1950 |
Launched | 11 June 1952 |
Commissioned | 21 November 1952 |
Decommissioned | 30 September 1983 |
Stricken | 6 August 1987 |
Fate |
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Turkey | |
Name | TCG Hızırreis |
Commissioned | 30 September 1983 |
Decommissioned | 4 February 2004 |
Identification | S342 |
Fate | Museum of Naval History at Beşiktaş |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tang-class submarine Attack submarine |
Displacement | 1,560 long tons (1,585 t) |
Length | 269 ft 2 in (82.04 m) |
Beam | 27 ft 2 in (8.28 m) |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
Speed | 15.5 knots (17.8 mph; 28.7 km/h) |
Test depth | 250 m (820 ft) |
Complement | 83 officers and men |
Armament | 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 forward, 2 aft) |
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