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USS Greenfish after GUPPY III modernization. Visible on deck are the three distinctive shark-fin domes of the PUFFS sonar. The Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program (GUPPY) was initiated by the United States Navy after World War II to improve the submerged speed, maneuverability, and endurance of its submarines. (The "Y" in the acronym ...
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 ...
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.
A National Historic Landmark, she was the last surviving example of a GUPPY III type submarine. [10] On 15 October 2022, the USS Clamagore, stripped of sail and superstructure was removed from Patriots Point and towed to Norfolk VA to begin final recycling. [11]
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 ...
USS Remora (SS-487), a Tench-class submarine, ... (GUPPY-III) conversion which lengthened her hull by 15 feet (5 m) and her conning tower by five feet. Then, in 1963 ...
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 ...
USS Corporal was converted to a Guppy III configuration and continued to operate throughout the 1960s and early 1970s in various capacities during the Cold War. She made regular "Northern" runs across the Arctic Circle above the North Sea, regular "Mediterranean Cruises", frequently operated in the Caribbean and trained submarine sailors in ...