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	USS Argonaut
		Two submarines of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Argonaut, after a relative of the octopus -- sometimes called the paper nautilus -- which propels itself underwater by expelling a jet of water.
		In December, the submarine departed Brisbane under the command of Lieutenant Commander J.R. Pierce to patrol in the hazardous area between New Britain and Bougainville, south of St.
		In July 1952, the submarine underwent a major conversion at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, during which she received a snorkel system and a streamlined conning tower.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Argonaut.html (1988 words)

	Submarine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Military submarines are generally divided into attack submarines, designed to operate against enemy ships, including other submarines, in a hunter-killer role, or strategic ballistic-missile submarines, designed to launch attacks on land-based targets from a position of stealth, also known as "boomers" in the United States Navy or "bombers" in the Royal Navy.
		Submarines designed for the purpose of attacking merchant ships or other warships are known as "fast attacks", "hunter-killers", "fast boats", or "fleet submarines" (which terms are not synonyms; each is a different design for a different mission).
		Where Japan had the finest submarine torpedoes of the war, the USN had perhaps the worst, the Mark 14 steam torpedo, with a Mk 6 magnetic influence exploder and a Mk 5 contact exploder, neither of which was reliable.
	www.a013.com /wiki/Submarine (9310 words)

	Tench - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tench or doctor fish (Tinca tinca) is a fish of the Cyprinid family, and is one of the commonest and most widely spread freshwater fishes of Europe.
		The tench is distinguished by its very small scales, which are deeply imbedded in a thick skin, whose surface is as slippery as that of an eel.
		The tench is really an excellent fish for the table, if kept in cool, clear water for a few days, as it is the custom to do in Germany, in order to rid it of the muddy flavour imparted to it by its favorite abode.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tench (676 words)

	USS Grampus
		The fourth USS Grampus (SS-4) was Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 4, whose keel was laid down on 10 December 1900, at San Francisco, California, by Union Iron Works[?], a subcontractor for the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Company[?] of New York City.
		Subsequently assigned to the First Submarine Division, Pacific Torpedo Flotilla, in January 1910, and to the Pacific Fleet in March 1911, the submarine torpedo boat operated locally off the California coast until assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet on 28 June 1912.
		The seventh USS Grampus (SS-523) was a Tench-class submarine[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Grampus.html (1676 words)

	History
		Naturally, the Balao Class boats became known as the “thick skins”...while the Gato Class and earlier classes were dubbed “thin skins.” In outward appearance and internal layout, the heavy-hull boats were practically identical to the earlier type, and many people, including the Japanese were unaware that there had been any change.
		Externally, the boats were practically indistinguishable for Balao Class submarines except for a sharper knuckle at the ball of the stem.
		The veteran submarine was decommissioned, struck from the Navy List, and transferred to the Navy of the Republic submarine “Cerbe” and assigned her pennant Number “S-340”.
	www.usstrutta.com /index_files/Page561.htm (1527 words)

	USS Tench (SS 417)
		TENCH was laid down on 1 April 1944 at the Portsmouth (N.H.) Navy Yard; launched on 7 July 1944, sponsored by Mrs.
		TENCH stood offshore and watched while they loosed their remaining bombs on installations near Akune: a railroad bridge, a fuel dump, and a factory.
		TENCH continued her retirement unaware of the results of her attack - in all probability unsuccessful - but heartened by her escape from what had seemed certain destruction.
	navysite.de /ss/ss417.htm (2112 words)

	National Park Service: World War II Warships in the Pacific
		Gato class submarines were successful boats that proved to be fast, strong, well armed, and suited to the long-range patrols necessary to fight in the Pacific.
		Many of the interiors of the submarine have been cleaned, repainted and refurbished; the concrete deck was broken up and removed and the rusty superstructure has been replaced by historically accurate new construction.
		USS Bowfin, USS Pampanito, USS Lionfish and USS Becuna are all Balao class submarines.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky1/warships6.htm (878 words)

	Submarine Force History (Full Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This 64-ton submarine, commissioned as USS Holland, or SS-1, on 12 October of the same year, was equipped with an Otto-type gasoline engine for surface running and electric motors for submerged operations.
		Submarines of the E, H, K, L, M, N, O, and R classes ranged in displacement from 287 to 510 tons, with the fastest boats displaying a top surface speed of barely 14 knots on diesel power.
		Submarines played a variety of roles in the war effort, demonstrating the versatility of stealth.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/history/fullhist.html (2396 words)

	National Park Service: World War II Warships in the Pacific
		USS Torsk is a fleet-type submarine of the Tench class.
		The Tench class were virtual copies of the Gato and Balao classes; however, they were more strongly built than the Gato/Balao classes and had a better internal layout, which increased their displacement by about 35-40 tons.
		The Tench class was a late World War II submarine design that represented the continued attempt by the U.S. Navy to improve on the previously successful Gato/Balao classes.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky1/torsk.htm (662 words)

	History of the Tang Class Boats
		The fleet submarine was obsolete and even though it would exist for another 20 years, it was as useful in the new submarine world as a biplane was at the beginning of World War II.
		The class was to be built at a length of 268 feet and a beam of 25 feet.
		Thus none of the submarine crews of the force which made patrols during that conflict, some of which were longer and as arduous as World War II patrols were able to earn war patrol pins.
	www.geocities.com /rrowe50/t-class.html (3208 words)

	U.S. Submarines
		So frequent was the use of guns and so weak the Japanese response mostly that US submarine skippers were asking for more and heavier guns while their German counterparts, facing high-technology and excellent radar, soon gave up their guns in favor for a smaller silhouette and lighter boat.
		Following this class shortly was the first class of "fleet submarines", designed as large vessels with high endurance and speed to support the battlefleet.
		The next class, the T-class, was already the prototype for the Gato/Balao class, and these two classes, barely distuinguishable after the refits, would be the primary tools of the US submarine force to destroy the Japanese merchant navy.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/ships/submarines (879 words)

	World War II Gato Balao Tench Class submarines in the Pacific
		U.S. Navy Gato, Balao and Tench Class submarines
		Using the Tambor Class submarine as the model standard, the Gatos had incorporated numerous improvements which increased its' overall patrolling and combat capabilities.
		In an effort to reduce their detection from both surface ships and aircraft, the original "lamp fl" color was changed to "ghost gray" (submarines at periscope depth were often visible from the air in a fl hulled boat).
	www.valoratsea.com /gato.htm (358 words)

	Pakistan Military Forces
		In 1982, a former British destroyer of the County class (Babur) was purchased.
		The major improvements were represented by the air defence capability given by the US-made Standard missiles placed onboard the Brooke class, the ASW capabilities of all the escorts, the anti-missile defence bestowed by the Vulcan-Phalanx Mk 15 system on many destroyers and frigates, and the additional Chinese-made quad 23 mm guns on many ships.
		The second submarine currently under assembly at KSEW is to join the fleet later this year, with the last to be inducted around 2004.
	babriet.tripod.com /navy/navy.htm (2093 words)

	USS Sculpin
		While on her initial shakedown cruise on 23 May 1939, the diesel-powered submarine was diverted to search for the sunken submarine, Squalus.
		Sighting a red smoke bomb and a buoy from the sunken submarine, she established communications, first by phone and then by signals tapped in Morse code on the hull.
		Sculpin, like many of her sister submarines in the early days of the Pacific war, was plagued by malfunctions of torpedo guidance systems which caused the "fish" either to take erratic courses or to run deep.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/Submarine/sculpin.html (2073 words)

	Pakistan
		The objectives of this operation were: to draw the heavy enemy units out of Bombay for the submarine GHAZI to attack; to destroy the radar installation at Dwarka; to lower Indian morale; and to divert Indian Air effort away from the north.
		The acquisition of an ex-US TENCH class submarine by Pakistan Navy in 1964 was particularly significant, not only because Pakistan became the second country after Indonesia, amongst the Indian Ocean littorals to operate a submarine, but it also brought a new dimension to naval warfare in the Indo-Pakistan context.
		The submarine force is the main strength of the PN Fleet.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/pakistan/navy-intro.htm (2606 words)

	Submarine and U boat Museums, Organizations and Historical Resources
		USS Cavalla (SS-244) Museum On her 1st WWII patrol this Gato Class Submarine sank the 30,000 ton Japanese Aircraft Carrier Shokaku.
		USS Spinax (SS-489) History of this U.S. Tench Class Submarine from WW II and her post war conversion to a SSR Radar Picket Submarine until her decommissioning with a comprehensive section of ships memorabilia.
		Submarine Art Tom Denton's outstanding watercolor prints of Trident Submarines, Fast Attacks, WWII Diesel Fleet Submarines, and 41 For Freedom SSBNs.
	www.sonic.net /~books/new.html (1266 words)

	Unicorn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The contract for the construction of Unicorn (SS-429)—a Tench-class submarine authorized on 9 July 1942 and scheduled to be built at Philadelphia, Pa., by the Cramp Shipbuilding Co.—was cancelled on 29 July 1944.
		The contract for the construction of Unicorn (SS-436)—a Tewch-class submarine laid down on 25 April 1945, at Groton, Conn., by the Electric Boat Co.—was terminated on 7 January 1946.
		However, it was reinstated on 26 February 1946 for "completion of specific items." The submarine was launched on 1 August 1946; sponsored by Mrs.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/u1/unicorn.htm (203 words)

	Tangclass
		For example Tang was based in Pearl Harbor and in the period from July 1956 to 1972 she deployed seven times to the Western Pacific to operate with units of the Seventh Fleet or alone in areas assigned by the fleet commands.
		In that year, she was taken outof storage and preparations were made to use the boat as a radio controlled test platform.
		By the way, USS Darter (SS-576) is in a class of its own and, although a direct descendant of the Tang-class, is different.
	gudgeonss567.homestead.com /Tangclass.html (3186 words)

	Tench Class Fleet Submarines
		The submarines of the Tench class were an improvement over the previous Gato and Balao classes due to better interior machinery and ballast tank arrangements.
		Table two lists incomplete vessels, and table three lists the four that were started as Tench class, but later completed as GUPPY II class submarines.
		Many of the class were decommissioned and recommissioned one or more times during their service lives, but this has been omitted to save space.
	www.usstorsk.org /tench/423class.htm (217 words)

	Deeds Of Glory - PAKISTAN NAVY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The submarine actively participated in Indo Pak 1965 war but was lost in 1971 war while deployed on a mine laying operation off the Indian Coast.
		PN Submarine HANGOR sailed in the early hours of 22 November 1971 to patrol off the Indian Kathiawar coast under the command of Commander Ahmed Tasnim S.J. On 9 Dec, in an effort to locate the evasive enemy, HANGOR extended her patrol northward to investigate some radio transmissions intercepted on her sensors.
		A distant explosion was heard subsequently and the submarine turned west towards deeper waters for evasion.
	www.paknavy.gov.pk /history.htm (2594 words)

	BHARAT RAKSHAK MONITOR: Volume 4(2) September-October 2001
		Thereafter Ghazi's primary role was the ASW training of Pakistan's surface fleet flotilla and the training of submarine personnel to man the new Daphne class submarines being acquired from France.
		As minesweepers and the Daphne class submarines did not have the range to operate in the Bay of Bengal, it was assumed that the submarine Ghazi was stalking the Vikrant.
		Whatever caused the Ghazi to explode, it was nevertheless, the Indian Navy's ingenuity and deceptive planning that caused the submarine to a follow a preset path which ended in a watery grave for it's 82 sailors on board.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /MONITOR/ISSUE4-2/harry.html (2555 words)

	News Article in Depth
		The pakistani navy must be cursing their fate as they have not only lost 2 destroyers and a minesweeper but now,their prized submarine and now are neck deep in agony as they stand humbled by their far more professional and skilled counterpart.
		As minesweepers and the Daphne class submarines did not have the range to operate in the Bay of Bengal,it was assumed that the submarine Ghazi was stalking the Vikrant.The Ghazi was the only means by which the pakistan Navy could interfere in the Indian Navy's Eastern theatre of operations.
		She had an incredible range of 11,000 miles cruising at 10 knots and a patrol endurance of 75 days and was pakistan's only means of interfering with the Indian Navy's eastern theatre operations.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /1971/Dec05/Art03.htm (439 words)

	Boat Names, by Class or Number? on SubmarineSailor.com
		So, for me, it was hard to relate to the "class of boat" because they were deploye we did use hull numbers rather than boat names.
		As a boat class gets older, changes are made that differentiate one boat from another to a sharp eyed individual.
		(Tench Class 43-78; 35 years) True the older of the class are gone, but the oldest of the boats in this class are being kept running by technicians skilled in getting from themselves and the shop what ever they need, any way they can.
	www.submarinesailor.com /history/BoatNames/NamesOrNumbers.asp (1027 words)

	USS Razorback and the GUPPY Program
		The underwater endurance of a diesel-electric submarine is defined by the capacity of it's batteries.
		A submarine's underwater speed is limited by the amount of drag created by it's fairwater, periscopes, guns, and other deck machinery.
		Furthermore, she is one of only two GUPPY submarines to have had her hull reinforced so she could act as a live target for torpedo tests, a role Razorback would fulfill regularly during her career.
	www.aimm.museum /SS-394/ss-394_GUPPY.htm (783 words)

	WW II Submarine Exhibit
		In addition, obtaining and preparing a nuclear submarine for display would undoubtedly carry with it many times the expense; however, if funding is available...
		There are only 7 remaining BALAO and 9 TENCH class documented examples that aren't already museum pieces or scrapped.
		The SS Trout, a post-WWII, Tang class submarine is available for the taking, but there are numerous issues (environmental, financial, space, etc) which stand in the way.
	members.cox.net /clifandlori/submarine.html (883 words)

	Tench class submarine - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		Further improvements were made to SS-435 and subsequent boats, so those advanced Tenches are sometimes referred to as the Corsair class.
		Initial plans called for 146 hulls to be built, but 115 of those orders were cancelled in 1944 and 1945 when it became apparent that they would not be needed to defeat Japan.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Tench_class_submarine (190 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ulua (SS-428)-a Tench-class submarine-was laid down on 13 November 1943 at Philadelphia, Pa., by the Cramp Shipbuilding Co., but the curtailment of naval construction programs, in the closing days of the war against Japan, resulted in the su spension of further construction on 12 August 1945.
		The partly completed submarine was launched in January 1946 and towed to the Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard for maintenance, prior to beginning her career as a test hull.
		Towed to Norfolk, Va., in 1951, she participated in tests to gather research data on new weapon and submarine design.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/submar/ss428.htm (138 words)

	1971 Operation -- Indian Navy
		On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields (03 Dec 1971), IN Ships Rajput and Akshay were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact.
		They fired several depth charges, and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence.
		The Pakistani submarine Ghazi (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.
	armedforces.nic.in /navy/1971.htm (251 words)

	Submarine Art from the Submarine Store - 3-D Submarine Art - The best selection of submarine art, submarine pictures, ...
		These are without a doubt the most beautiful and unusual works of submarine art available today.
		This submarine was the mainstay of the United States Navy at the beginning of World War 2.
		This was the fleet submarine of the United States Navy during World War 2.
	www.submarinestore.com /art-3D.htm (486 words)

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