USS Cubera
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Cubera |
| Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
| Laid down | 11 May 1944[1] |
| Launched | 17 June 1945[1] |
| Commissioned | 19 December 1945[1] |
| Decommissioned | 5 January 1972[1] |
| Stricken | 5 January 1972[2] |
| Identification | SS-347 |
| Fate | Transferred to Venezuela, 5 January 1972[1] |
 Venezuela | |
| Name | ARV Tiburon |
| Acquired | 1972 |
| Identification | S-12 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1989 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
| Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | |
| Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[3] |
| Endurance |
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| Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[3] |
| Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[3] |
| Armament |
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| General characteristics (Guppy II) | |
| Class and type | none |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 307 ft (93.6 m)[5] |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (7.4 m)[5] |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[5] |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed |
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| Range | 15,000 nm (28,000 km) surfaced at 11 knots (13 mph; 20 km/h)[5] |
| Endurance | 48 hours at 4 knots (5 mph; 7 km/h) submerged[5] |
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USS Cubera (SS-347), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the cubera, a large fish of the snapper family found in the West Indies.
Cubera (SS-347) was launched 17 June 1945 by
After shakedown training off
Returning to Key West 9 March 1948 Cubera continued to operate locally out of this port, as well as taking part in fleet exercises in the Caribbean and Atlantic until 3 July 1952 when she arrived at Norfolk, her new home port.
Cubera appeared in Ray Harryhausen's It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955), playing an "atomic sub" used to dispatch the film's giant octopus.
Through 1957 Cubera conducted local operations, and participated in fleet exercises in the Caribbean, as well as cruising to Sydney, Nova Scotia, in June 1955. During 1959 and 1960, she was assigned to Task Force Alfa, a force conducting constant experiments to improve antisubmarine warfare techniques. With this group she cruised the western Atlantic from Nova Scotia to Bermuda.
ARV Tiburon (S-12)
Cubera was decommissioned and sold under the Security Assistance Program to
). She was subsequently scrapped by Venezuela in 1989.References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entries can be found here and here.
External links
- Photo gallery of Cubera at NavSource Naval History
- USS Cubera website Archived 22 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine
