USS Blower
Blower underway c. 1944 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Blower (SS-325) |
| Namesake | Blower, a fish of the family Tetraodontidae |
| Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down | 15 July 1943 |
| Launched | 23 April 1944 |
| Commissioned | 10 August 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 16 November 1950 |
| Stricken | 20 December 1950 |
| Fate | Transferred to Turkey, 16 November 1950 |
| Turkey | |
| Name | TCG Dumlupınar |
| Namesake | Battle of Dumlupınar |
| Acquired | 16 November 1950 |
| Fate | Sunk in collision 4 April 1953 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Balao class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum |
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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, 70–71 enlisted |
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USS Blower (SS-325), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy in commission from 1944 to 1950. She was named after the blower, a type of pufferfish of the United States East Coast and West Indies. During World War II, She completed three war patrols, all in the Indian Ocean, Java Sea, and South China Sea.
Blower was transferred to Turkey in 1950 under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program, where she was recommissioned in the Turkish Naval Forces as the second TCG Dumlupınar. Dumlupınar sank after an accident off the coast of Turkey on 4 April 1953 following a joint North Atlantic Treaty Organization training exercise.