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USS Clamagore after GUPPY III modernization, as formerly preserved at Patriot's Point, Charleston, South Carolina. The GUPPY II conversions suffered from very cramped internal conditions due to the four-battery configuration. The GUPPY III program (SCB 223) was devised to address this problem. In 1959, Tiru became the prototype conversion.
USS Clamagore (SS-343) was a Balao-class submarine, which operated as a museum ship at the Patriot's Point Naval & Maritime Museum outside Charleston, South Carolina from 1979 to 2022. Built in 1945 for the United States Navy , she was still in training when World War II ended.
GUPPY I conversion 1947, GUPPY II conversion 1951 SS-487 Remora: GUPPY II conversion 1947, GUPPY III conversion 1962, transferred to Greece on 29 October 1973. SS-488 Sarda: SS-489 Spinax: Converted to SSR in 1946 SS-490 Volador: Last fleet submarine to be launched on 17 Jan 1946. GUPPY II completion 1948, GUPPY III conversion 1963.
This was the first production GUPPY conversion, with most conversions occurring in 1947–49. Eleven Tench-class boats received GUPPY II upgrades (Amberjack, Cutlass, Grampus, Grenadier, Odax, Pickerel, Pomodon, Remora, Sea Leopard, Sirago, and Volador), including the two GUPPY I prototypes in 1951. This was the only production conversion with ...
Departing the yard on 19 April 1965, as a modernized "GUPPY III", she moved to the Puget Sound, Washington, area for evaluation and sound tests. She then returned to San Diego, to resume local operations, on 4 May. Salmon commenced her fourth WestPac deployment on 23 August. She joined Submarine Flotilla (SubFlot) 7 of the Seventh Fleet on 14 ...
USS Harder (SS-568) with the three distinctive shark-fin PUFFS domes Fin and central section of HMAS Onslow. The three orange covers on the casing are protective sheathes over the submarine's Micropuffs sonar. Passive Underwater Fire Control Feasibility System (or Study) (PUFFS) is a passive sonar system for submarines.
USS Tiru (SS-416), a Balao-class submarine, was a vessel of the United States Navy named for the tiru, a member of the lizardfish family. Tiru —laid down on 17 April 1944 at Vallejo, California , by the Mare Island Navy Yard —remained uncompleted for three years as a result of the curtailment of the submarine building program at the end of ...
Pickerel alternated North Pacific with WestPac duty through 1963 with the exception of a conversion period during 1962 for GUPPY III modernization. Pickerel operated out of Pearl Harbor during 1964 until 28 December, when she departed en route Yokosuka to begin a WestPac tour as a unit of the Seventh Fleet. In the years that followed, she ...