USS Harder (SS-568)
USS Harder (the three distinctive shark-fin domes are the PUFFS sonar). | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Harder |
| Builder | Electric Boat Company |
| Laid down | 30 June 1950 |
| Launched | 3 December 1951 |
| Commissioned | 19 August 1952 |
| Decommissioned | 31 January 1974 |
| Stricken | 20 February 1974 |
| Identification | SS-568 |
| Fate | Sold to Italy, 1974 |
| Italy | |
| Name | Romeo Romei |
| Commissioned | 18 August 1974 |
| Decommissioned | 31 May 1988 |
| Identification | S 516 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Tang-class submarine Attack submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 277 ft 2 in (84.48 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
| Speed |
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| Test depth | 213 m (699 ft) |
| Complement | 8 officers and 75 men |
| Armament | 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 forward, 2 aft) |
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USS Harder (SS-568), a Tang-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the harder, a fish of the mullet family found off South Africa.