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U.S.S. TROUT
(SS-566)PUT OUT FOR TROUT
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USS TROUT (SS-566) - a Tang-class submarine
In Commission 1952 to 1978SS-566 Deployments - Major Events
Add a SS-566 Shellback Initiation | Add a SS-566 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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DEC | 1949 | - | Keel Date: 1 DEC 1949 at Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporat | ||
AUG | 1951 | - | Launch Date: 21 AUG 1951 | ||
JUN | 1952 | - | Commissioned: 27 JUN 1952 | ||
JAN | 1956 | - | FEB | 1956 | Caribbean |
APR | 1964 | - | SEP | 1964 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1972 | - | DEC | 1972 | West Pac |
JUL | 1975 | - | JAN | 1976 | West Pac |
SEP | 1978 | - | Shellback Initiation - 22 SEP 1978 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
DEC | 1978 | - | Decommissioned: 19 DEC 1978 |
SS-566 General Specifications
Class: Tang-class submarine
Named for: Trout
Complement: 8 Officers and 75 Enlisted
Displacement: 1615 tons
Length: 269 feet
Beam: 27 feet 3 inches
Flank Speed: 16 Knots
Final Disposition: Transferred to Iran 19 December 1978; became IIS Kousseh (SS 101)Abandoned in United States March 1979Returned to U.S. cus
USS TROUT (SS-566)
The second Trout (SS-566)
was laid down on 1 December 1949 at
Groton, Conn., by the Electric Boat Co.; launched on 21 August 1951;
sponsored by Mrs. Albert H. Clark, the widow
of Lt. Comdr. Albert H. Clark, the last
commanding officer of Trout (SS-202); and commissioned at the submarine base at New London,
Conn., on 27 June 1952, Comdr.
George W. Kittredge in command.
Trout operated out of New London as a unit of Submarine Squadron (SubRon) 10 from 1952 to 1959.
During this period, she conducted training and readiness Operations with ships of the fleet and NATO
nations, operating from the North
Atlantic to the Caribbean Sea. She
engaged in sonar evaluation tests, practice ASW exercises, and submerged simulated attack exercises. During
submerged exercises in polar waters in company
with Harder (SS-568), Trout sailed 268 miles beneath Newfoundland ice floes, setting a
distance record for conventionally powered submarines.
In August 1959, Trout shifted
her home port to Charleston, S.C.,
where she was assigned to SubRon 4. She
was deployed to the 6th Fleet in September 1959 for her first Mediterranean cruise. Four months later, while returning home, she represented the United
States at Bergen, Norway, during the 50th anniversary celebrations commemorating the birth of the Norwegian
Navy's submarine arm.
In February 1960, Trout performed as a test bed for Bureau of Ships shock tests. She won her first
Battle Efficiency "E"
award in 1961. In early 1963, the submarine
rendered services for the Operational Test and Evaluation Force before commencing a six-month overhaul at Charleston in July of that year.
During the remaining
years of the 1960's, Trout made three
more Mediterranean deployments as a unit of the . 6th Fleet. Between
deployments, she participated in training and developmental exercises off the
east coast and in the Caribbean. In July
1970, she was assigned to the Pacific Fleet.
Homeported at San Diego,
Calif., Trout conducted two Western Pacific (WestPac)
deployments-in 1972 and 1975-primarily
providing submarine services during
ASW exercises conducted by warships of the United States, South Korean, or Nationalist Chinese
navies. Between these deployments,
the submarine participated in antisubmarine warfare exercises and
conducted local operations off the southern California operating areas, punctuating this service with weapons tests in the Pacific
Northwest, out of Puget Sound.
After returning from her
second WestPac deployment to San
Diego on 29 January 1976, Trout operated off the west coast until
receiving orders on 1 December changing her
home port to Philadelphia. She was decommissioned and struck from the
Navy list on 19 December 1978.
[Note: The above USS TROUT (SS-566) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS TROUT (SS-566), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]