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U.S.S. CUSK
(SS-348)SECAN DESTRUERE
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USS CUSK (SS-348) - a Balao class submarine
In Commission 1946 to 1969SS-348 Deployments - Major Events
Add a SS-348 Shellback Initiation | Add a SS-348 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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MAY | 1944 | - | Keel Date: 25 MAY 1944 at Electric Boat Company Groton CT | ||
JUL | 1945 | - | Launch Date: 28 JUL 1945 | ||
FEB | 1946 | - | Commissioned: 5 FEB 1946 | ||
FEB | 1947 | - | FEB | 1947 | First Submarine Missile Launch |
NOV | 1959 | - | MAR | 1960 | Regular Overhaul |
MAY | 1960 | - | OCT | 1960 | West Pac |
FEB | 1962 | - | JUL | 1962 | West Pac |
OCT | 1962 | - | NOV | 1962 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
JAN | 1965 | - | JAN | 1967 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1968 | - | SEP | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
AUG | 1968 | - | MAR | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
SEP | 1969 | - | Decommissioned: 24 SEP 1969 |
SS-348 General Specifications
Class: Balao class submarine
Complement: 10 Officers and 70 Enlisted
Displacement: 1526 tons
Length: 311 feet 9 inches
Beam: 27 feet 3 inches
Draft: 16 feet 10 in
Range: 11 000 Nautical Miles
Final Disposition: Sold for scrap 26 June 1972
USS CUSK (SS-348)
Cusk (SS-348) was launched 28 July 1945 by Electric Boat Co. Groton Conn.; cosponsored by Mrs. C. S. Gillette and Mrs. W. G. Reed; and commissioned 5 February 1946 Commander P. E. Summers in command.
Departing New London 24 April 1946 Cusk made an extended cruise through the Caribbean Sea and arrived at San Diego 6 June 1946. She sailed to Alaska and northern waters between 16 July and 20 August then carried out local operations out of San Diego. A pioneer in the missile field Cusk was designated SSG-348 20 January 1948 and was the first submarine to launch a guided missile from her own deck a forerunner of the ballistic missile submarines of the future. She entered Mare Island Naval Shipyard for extensive modernization in 1954 but remained in the missile program because of her special guidance equipment although redesignated SS-348 1 July 1954.
Cusk arrived at Pearl Harbor
her new home port
13 May
1957. Continuing her missile experiments she operated in Hawaiian
waters except for a cruise to San Diego in 1957 and duty in the Far
East in 1958 and 1960.
[Note: The above USS CUSK (SS-348) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS CUSK (SS-348) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]