USS Caiman
Caiman (SS-323), spring 1951, following GUPPY upgrade. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Caiman (SS-323) |
| Namesake | The caiman, a salt-water latiloid fish of Florida and the West Indies, and caiman, a genus of crocodilians of Central America and South America |
| Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down | 24 June 1943 |
| Launched | 30 March 1944 |
| Commissioned | 17 July 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 30 June 1972 |
| Stricken | 30 June 1972 |
| Fate | Transferred to Turkey, 30 June 1972 |
| Turkey | |
| Name | TCG Dumlupınar (S 339) |
| Commissioned | 24 August 1972 |
| Decommissioned | 6 February 1983 |
| Renamed | Ceryan Botu (Y-1247) 6 February 1983 |
| Reclassified | Charging boat 6 February 1983 |
| In service | 6 February 1983 |
| Out of service | 15 September 1986 |
| Fate | Retired 15 September 1986 |
| General characteristics (As completed) | |
| 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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| General characteristics (Guppy IA) | |
| Class & type | none |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 307 ft 7 in (93.75 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
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| Range | 17,000 nmi (31,000 km) surfaced at 11 knots (20 km/h) |
| Endurance | 36 hours at 3 knots (6 km/h) submerged |
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USS Caiman (SS-323), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy that was later transferred to the Turkish Naval Forces in 1972 under the Security Assistance Program, where she was recommissioned as the third TCG Dumlupınar. She was retired in 1986.