USS Mapiro
Appearance
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Mapiro (SS-376) |
Builder | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin[1] |
Laid down | 30 May 1944[1] |
Launched | 9 November 1944[1] |
Commissioned | 30 April 1945[1] |
Decommissioned | 16 March 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 14 November 1959[1] |
Decommissioned | 18 March 1960[1] |
Stricken | 1 August 1973[2] |
Fate | Transferred to Turkey, 18 March 1960,[2] sold to Turkey 1 August 1973[1] |
Turkey | |
Name | TCG Piri Reis (S 343) |
Namesake | Ottoman Admiral Piri Reis |
Acquired | 18 March 1960 |
Commissioned | 24 June 1960 |
Out of service | 1973 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 1980 |
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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USS Mapiro (SS-376), a
mapiro
,
a fish of the Gobioidea suborder occurring off the West Indies and the Atlantic coasts of Central America and Mexico.
Construction and commissioning
Mapiro was laid down by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on 30 May 1944; launched on 9 November 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Philip H. Ross; and commissioned on 30 April 1945.
Operational history
Following
New Orleans, La., to be readied for duty in the South Pacific. She sailed for the Canal Zone 31 May, arriving off Balboa 5 June for training. On 28 June the submarine got underway for Hawaii in company with Cutlass (SS-478), arriving Pearl Harbor
15 July.
Mapiro sailed for the
Saipan the day Japan surrendered, 15 August. She remained on observation patrol until returning to the west coast in September, arriving at San Francisco
for deactivation by 25 August.
On 16 March 1946, Mapiro decommissioned to enter the
Pacific Reserve Fleet at Mare Island, Calif.
, 1 January 1947.
TCG Pirireis (S-343)
In 1960, Mapiro was converted to a
cartographer. She left San Francisco on 16 May 1960 for Istanbul via the Panama Canal, with her new Turkish crew. Pirireis arrived in Gölcük
on 23 June 1960. She was commissioned into Turkish Navy the day after.
The submarine was struck from the US
Naval Register
, and sold outright to Turkey, 1 August 1973; she was scrapped by the Turkish Navy in 1973.
In 1983, a second ex-U.S. Navy submarine, the former USS Tang (SS-563), was renamed TCG Pirireis (S-343) reusing the same hull number.
References
- ^ ISBN 1-55750-263-3.
- ^ ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
- ^ a b c d e f U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305-311
- ^ a b U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
- 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 Mapiro at NavSource Naval History