USS Tusk
Tusk, after the GUPPY II conversion | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Tusk |
| Builder | Cramp Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia |
| Yard number | 560 |
| Laid down | 23 August 1943 |
| Launched | 8 July 1945 |
| Commissioned | 11 April 1946 |
| Decommissioned | 18 October 1973 |
| Stricken | 18 October 1973 |
| Identification | SS-426 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Republic of China, 18 October 1973 |
| Republic of China | |
| Name | ROCS Hai Pao |
| Acquired | 18 October 1973 |
| Identification | SS-792 |
| Status | Afloat at Tsoying Naval Base, Kaohsiung as of November 2020 |
| 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 feet (120 m) |
| Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted |
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| General characteristics (Guppy II) | |
| Class & type | 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 nmi (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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USS Tusk (SS-426), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tusk, an alternate name for the cusk, a large edible saltwater fish related to the cod. Her keel was laid down on 23 August 1943 at Philadelphia by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company. She was launched on 8 July 1945 sponsored by Mrs. Carolyn Park Mills, and commissioned on 11 April 1946.
Tusk and Trumpetfish are erroneously listed with the Tench class in some sources, as their hull numbers are in the sequence assigned to that class.