Global InformationUSS Trutta information
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Trutta (SS-421) |
| Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine[1] |
| Laid down | 22 May 1944[1] |
| Launched | 18 August 1944[1] |
| Commissioned | 16 November 1944[1] |
| Decommissioned | 1947[1] |
| Recommissioned | 1 March 1951[1] |
| Decommissioned | 14 May 1952[1] |
| Recommissioned | 2 January 1953[1] |
| Decommissioned | 1 July 1972[1] |
| Stricken | 1 July 1972[2] |
| Fate | Transferred to Turkey, 1 July 1972[1] |
 Turkey | |
| Name | TCG Cerbe (S 340) |
| Namesake | Battle of Djerba |
| Acquired | 1 July 1972 |
| Decommissioned | 23 July 1999 |
| General characteristics (As completed) | |
| Class and type | Tench-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
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| Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m) [2] |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m) [2] |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) maximum [2] |
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| Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) [3] |
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| Test depth | 400 ft (120 m) [3] |
| Complement | 10 officers, 71 enlisted [3] |
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| General characteristics (Guppy IIA) | |
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| Length | 307 ft (93.6 m)[8] |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.3 m)[8] |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[8] |
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USS Trutta (SS-421), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the trutta, a variety of trout, distinguished from the typical trout by its small, black spots and its smaller and fewer scales. She was originally assigned the name Tomtate, often misspelled as Tomatate, and would have made her the only ship named for the tomtate, a food fish of warm American waters having a compressed body, a toothless palate, and conical jaw teeth, but was renamed Trutta on 24 September 1942. Her keel was laid down on 22 May 1944 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was launched on 18 August 1944 sponsored by Mrs. Edward C. Magdeburger, and commissioned on 16 November 1944 with Commander Arthur C. Smith in command.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Friedman, 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 280–282. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
- ^ a b c d e f U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305-311
- ^ a b c d e Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 275–282. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9.
- ^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 261–263
- ^ a b c U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
- ^ a b c d e f g Friedman, Norman (1994). U.S. Submarines Since 1945: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. pp. 11–43. ISBN 1-55750-260-9.
- ^ a b c d U.S. Submarines Since 1945 pp. 242