USS Barracuda (SSK-1)
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| Keel laying: | July 1, 1949 |
| Launch: | March 2, 1951 |
| Commissioning: | November 10, 1951 |
| Decommissioning: | 1st October 1973 |
| Whereabouts: | Wrecked |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement: | 765 tons surfaced, 1160 tons submerged |
| Length: | 59.8 m |
| Width: | 7.5 m |
| Draft: | 4.4 m |
| Drive: | Three diesel engines, two electric motors |
| Crew: | 37 |
The USS Barracuda (SSK-1) was the Barracuda-class lead ship of the United States Navy . She was the first boat of the new type of killer boats, which were specially designed for hunting submarines.
history
The submarine, still under the name USS K-1 (SSK-1) , was laid down at Electric Boat in 1949 and launched after less than two years. Godmother was Mrs. Alice B. Thomas, widow of the commander of the submarine USS Pompano (SS-181) , which sank during World War II . On November 10, 1951, the submarine was taken over into the US Navy fleet.
After the test runs was K-1 of the Submarine Development Group 2 associated with a research group for submarine technologies. There the boat was used to research anti-submarine tactics. The K-1 spent the first few years with such exercises, only rarely leaving the coast of the United States, for example to visit ports in Nassau , Havana or Halifax . In 1955, the Chief of Naval Operations , Robert B. Carney , expressed the desire to give the boat a name. The commander of the K-1 suggested Killer or, alternatively, Barracuda . The latter proposal was accepted by Secretary of the Navy Charles S. Thomas in late 1955 . As early as June 1955, the submarine was far from home waters for the first time when it made port visits in Scotland. Local operations for SubDevGru 2 followed again until 1959.
On July 15, 1959, the identifier SSK-1 was changed to SST-3 , so the boat was classified as a training boat. An overhaul followed by 1962. In 1964, during an overhaul at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, the oversized bow sonar was removed so that the Barracuda could better simulate conventional submarines. From 1968 the boat was then used to train the personnel of missile submarines .
On October 1, 1973, the Barracuda was decommissioned, sold to Addlestone International Corp and scrapped by Georgetown Steel Corp.
Web links
- Barracuda at DANFS (English)
