4 × General Motors Model 16-278A V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators
2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears
2 × propellers
5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced
2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
Speed
20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced[2]
8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged[2]
Range
11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[2]
Endurance
48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged[2]
75 days on patrol
Test depth
400 ft (120 m)[2]
Complement
10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[2]
Armament
10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
6 forward, 4 aft
24 torpedoes[4]
1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun[4]
Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Cusk (SSG-348) firing a KGW-1 Loon (V-1) missile, 1951.
USS Cusk (SS/SSG/AGSS-348), a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy named for the cusk, a large food fish related to the cod.
^ abcdefgFriedman, Norman (1995). U.S. Submarines Through 1945: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. pp. 285–304. ISBN 1-55750-263-3.
^ abcdefU.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
^ abcdefBauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 275–280. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
USSCusk (SS/SSG/AGSS-348), a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy named for the cusk, a large food fish related to the cod. Cusk was launched...
Look up cusk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cusk may refer to: Cusk (fish), a fish of the northern Atlantic Ocean in the genus Brosme USSCusk (SS-348)...
of the German V-1. In 1947, a pair of Balao-class submarines, USS Carbonero and USSCusk, were converted to allow operation of the JB-2, and a test program...
1947 until April 1948, Wilkinson was executive officer and navigator of USSCusk. Joining then-Captain Hyman G. Rickover at Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
a fish: "Torsk" is the common name in the North American fishery for the Cusk, a cod-like fish in the family Lotidae. It is also a Scandinavian term for...
World War II. Republic‐Ford JB‐2 "Loon" missiles were launched from USSCusk and USS Carbonero in a series of tests which began on February 12, 1947. These...
submarine USS Trumpetfish (SS-425) bound for the Arctic Ocean. At Dutch Harbor on Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Islands, the submarines USSCusk (SS-348)...
Norwegian and Swedish word for cod and Atlantic cod A common name for cusk (fish), USS Torsk (SS-423), an American submarine; built 1944, since 1972 a floating...
dispatched the first search planes. Four surface vessels, submarines USSCusk and USS Carbonero, and a number of aircraft from Honolulu conducted the search...
USS Tusk (SS-426), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tusk, an alternate name for the cusk, a large...
assigned to the Submarine Guided Missile Program, joining her sister ship Cusk as a control vessel operating out of San Diego, and Naval Base Ventura County...
Talbot's (Glenn Ford) boat USS Bluefin (actually USSCusk) is on manoeuvres with the goal of simulating sinking the aircraft carrier USS Midway. Midway is carrying...
also COB for the submarines Cusk, Carbonero and Theodore Roosevelt. He was featured in the book Thunder Below by his USS Barb skipper, Admiral Eugene...
OR USS Bowfin (SS-287) - USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park, Pearl Harbor, HI USS Cavalla (SSK-244) - Galveston Naval Museum, Galveston, TX USS Cobia...
Holland VI was the first submarine that this shipyard built, which became USS Holland when it was commissioned into the United States Navy on April 11...
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