USS Greenfish
Greenfish (SS-351) c. 1960s with the three distinctive shark-fin domes of the PUFFS sonar.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Greenfish |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 29 June 1944[1] |
Launched | 21 December 1945[1] |
Commissioned | 7 June 1946[1] |
Decommissioned | 29 October 1973[1] |
Stricken | 29 October 1973[2] |
Fate | Transferred to Brazil, 19 December 1973[1] |
Brazil | |
Name | Amazonas |
Acquired | 19 December 1973 |
Stricken | 15 October 1992 |
Identification | S-16 |
Fate | Scrapped in 2001 |
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] |
Complement |
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Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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General characteristics (Guppy III) | |
Class and type | none |
Displacement | |
Length | 321 ft (97.8 m) [5] |
Beam | 27 ft 4 in (7.4 m) [5] |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) [5] |
Speed |
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Range | 15,900 nm (29,400 km) surfaced at 8.5 knots (10 mph; 16 km/h) [5] |
Endurance | 36 hours at 3 knots (3 mph; 6 km/h) submerged [5] |
Complement |
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Sensors and processing systems |
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USS Greenfish (SS-351) was a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy. It was named for the greenfish.
Greenfish (SS-351) was launched by the
Greenfish's shakedown cruise 22 July to 13 September 1946, took her to Barranquilla, Colombia; the Canal Zone; Callao, Peru; and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Exercises out of New London and in Chesapeake Bay carried her through the year, and the early months of 1947 found Greenfish back in the Caribbean for fleet exercises. On 11 February 1947 she effected one of the first transfers of personnel from an aircraft carrier, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to a submarine by helicopter.
Various exercises along the American coast and in the Caribbean occupied Greenfish until 8 January 1948, when she entered the Electric Boat Co. yards for a
Returning to New London 21 August 1948, Greenfish sailed on her "second" shakedown cruise 1 September, with Rear Admiral
The new GUPPY submarine was attached to the
Departing Pearl Harbor 15 November 1951, Greenfish sailed to
Greenfish, overhaul completed 6 July 1955, sailed for deployment with the
. After further exercises off Okinawa and Yokosuka, Greenfish returned to Pearl Harbor 13 March 1956.The following 5 years fell into a pattern for Greenfish—local operations out of Pearl Harbor,
Conversion completed, Greenfish departed 28 July 1961 for shakedown, operations at Pearl Harbor, and in December sailed to serve with the 7th Fleet. In addition to special operations, the submarine participated in various fleet and ASW exercises and visited several ports, including Hong Kong, Manila, and Okinawa. Returning to Pearl Harbor June 1962, Greenfish engaged in local operations until October, when the Cuban Missile Crisis sent her to Japan to strengthen the 7th Fleet. Upon return to Hawaii December 1962, she underwent a brief overhaul and then resumed her peace time schedule of local and special operations interspersed with training exercises.
Based at Pearl Harbor, she participated in various ASW exercises while maintaining the high tempo of training and readiness for her crew. From 30 March 1964 to 4 September she underwent overhaul; and, after a cruise to the Pacific Coast and back, Greenfish departed for the Far East 27 January 1965. She arrived Japan early in February and during the next 4 months operated with the 7th Fleet in waters from Japan to the Philippines. She returned to Pearl Harbor 1 August, continued type training into 1966, and deployed once again to the Western Pacific 1 February 1966. She completed her duty with the 7th Fleet 1 July and returned to Hawaii later that month to resume readiness exercises out of Pearl Harbor. Into 1967 she continued to serve in the Pacific Fleet's submarine force. In 1970 she underwent a yard overhaul at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, CA. She then underwent weapons alignment in Bangor, WA. Greenfish Transited the Panama Canal and proceeded to Sub base New London. She made a Med cruise and North Atlantic cruise in 1971 and a springboard exercise in 1972.
Brazilian submarine Amazonas (S-16)
Greenfish was decommissioned, struck from the US
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 Greenfish at NavSource Naval History
- https://web.archive.org/web/20041209232805/http://home.earthlink.net/~drobrien/decommissioning.html