USS Trumpetfish
USS Trumpetfish after Greater Underwater Propulsive Power Program (GUPPY) conversion. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Trumpetfish (SS-425) |
| Builder | Cramp Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia |
| Yard number | 559 |
| Laid down | 23 August 1943 |
| Launched | 13 May 1945 |
| Commissioned | 29 January 1946 |
| Decommissioned | 15 October 1973 |
| Stricken | 15 October 1973 |
| Fate | Transferred to Brazil, 15 October 1973 |
| Brazil | |
| Name | Goias (S-15) |
| Acquired | 15 October 1973 |
| Stricken | 16 April 1990 |
| 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) |
| Endurance |
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| Test depth | 400 feet (120 m) |
| Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted |
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| General characteristics (Guppy II) | |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 307 ft (94 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
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| Range | 15,000 nautical miles (28,000 km) surfaced at 11 knots (20 km/h) |
| Endurance | 48 hours at 4 knots (7.4 km/h) submerged |
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| General characteristics (Guppy III) | |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 321 ft (98 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
| Speed |
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| Range | 15,900 nautical miles (29,400 km) surfaced at 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h) |
| Endurance | 36 hours at 3 knots (5.6 km/h) submerged |
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USS Trumpetfish (SS-425), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for trumpetfish, any of several fishes so-called for their deep, compressed body and long, tubular snout. Her keel was laid down on 23 August 1943 at Philadelphia by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company. She was launched on 13 May 1945 sponsored by Mrs. Oswald S. Colclough, and commissioned on 29 January 1946.
Trumpetfish and Tusk are erroneously listed with the Tench class in some sources, as their hull numbers are in the sequence assigned to that class.