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.jpg) USSTrout, ca. 1969. | |
| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USSTrout |
| Namesake | Trout, a number of species of freshwater and saltwater fish belonging to the subfamilySalmoninae of thefamilySalmonidae |
| Awarded | 14 May 1948 |
| Builder | Electric Boat Division,General Dynamics Corporation,Groton,Connecticut |
| Laid down | 1 December 1949 |
| Launched | 21 August 1951 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Albert H. Clark |
| Commissioned | 27 June 1952 |
| Decommissioned | 2 January 1977[1] |
| Stricken | 19 December 1978 |
| Honors & awards | Battle Efficiency Award (Battle "E") 1961 |
| Fate | Transferred toImperial Iranian Navy 19 December 1978 |
 Imperial Iranian Navy | |
| Name | IISKousseh (SS 101) |
| Namesake | Shark |
| Acquired | 19 December 1978 |
| Fate |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Tang-classsubmarineAttack submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 269 ft (82 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Speed |
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| Test depth | 700 ft (210 m) |
| Complement | 8 officers and 75 men |
| Armament | 8 ×21 inch (533 mm)torpedo tubes (6 forward, 2 aft) |
USSTrout (SS-566), aTang-classsubmarine, was the second ship of theUnited States Navy to be named for thetrout.
The contract to buildTrout was awarded to theElectric Boat Division of theGeneral Dynamics Corporation ofGroton,Connecticut, on 14 May 1948 and her keel was laid down there on 1 December 1949. She waslaunched on 21 August 1951, sponsored by Mrs. Albert H. Clark, the widow ofLieutenant Commander Albert H. Clark, the last commanding officer of the previous U.S. Navy ship of the name,Trout (SS-202).Trout wascommissioned on 27 June 1952.
Trout operated out ofNew London, Connecticut, as a unit ofSubmarine Squadron 10 from 1952 to 1959. During this period, she conducted training and readiness operations with ships of theUnited States Atlantic Fleet andNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization nations, operating from theNorth Atlantic Ocean to theCaribbean Sea. She engaged insonar evaluation tests,antisubmarine warfare exercises, and submerged simulated attack exercises. During submerged exercises inArctic waters in company with hersister shipHarder,Trout transited 268 nautical miles (496 km; 308 mi) beneathice floes offNewfoundland,Canada, setting a submerged distance record for a conventionally powered submarine.
In August 1959,Trout shifted herhome port toCharleston,South Carolina, where she was assigned toSubmarine Squadron 4. She deployed to theMediterranean Sea in September 1959 for her first tour of duty with theUnited States Sixth Fleet. In December 1959, while returning home, she represented theUnited States atBergen,Norway, during the 50th anniversary celebrations commemorating the birth of theRoyal Norwegian Navy's submarine arm.
In February 1960,Trout performed as a test bed for U.S. NavyBureau of Ships shock tests. She won her firstBattle Efficiency Award (Battle "E") in 1961. In early 1963, she rendered services to theOperational Test and Evaluation Force before commencing a six-monthoverhaul at Charleston in July 1963.
During the remaining years of the 1960s,Trout made three more Mediterranean deployments to serve as a unit of the Sixth Fleet. Between deployments, she participated in training and developmental exercises off theUnited States East Coast and in the Caribbean Sea.
In July 1970,Trout was assigned to theUnited States Pacific Fleet. From her new home port atSan Diego,California,Trout conducted twoWestern Pacific deployments, one in 1972 and one in 1975, primarily providing submarine services during antisubmarine warfare exercises conducted by warships of the United States Navy, theRepublic of Korea Navy, or theRepublic of China Navy. Between these deployments, she participated in antisubmarine warfare exercises and conducted local operations off theSouthern California coast, punctuating this service with weapons tests in thePacific Northwest, operating out ofPuget Sound inWashington.
After returning from her second Western Pacific deployment to San Diego on 29 January 1976,Trout enjoyed a brief unusual duty — repeatedly diving and surfacing while being filmed to portray the fictitious U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USSNeptune in the opening credits of the 1978 movieGray Lady Down.
Trout received orders on 1 December 1976 changing her home port toPhiladelphia,Pennsylvania. In 1977 and 1978,Trout underwent an extensive overhaul at thePhiladelphia Naval Shipyard at Philadelphia in anticipation of a planned transfer to theImperial Iranian Navy. Upon completion of the overhaul in 1978,Trout's home port was shifted to New London, Connecticut, where a training period for her the Iranian crew ensued. The training program was completed on 19 December 1978, and that day the U.S. Navy simultaneouslydecommissionedTrout, struck her from theNaval Vessel Register, and transferred her toIran.
The Imperial Iranian Navy renamed her Imperial Iranian Ship (IIS)Kousseh (SS 101), meaning "Shark". Her Iranian crew took control of her at New London in December 1978, but abandoned her there in March 1979 following theIranian Revolution.Kousseh was returned to Philadelphia, where she languished for many years while the United States resolved financial matters related to her abortive transfer to Iran.
Kousseh finally was returned officially to U.S. custody in 1992. She was sold at scrap value to the U.S. Navy'sProgram Executive Office for Undersea Warfare in 1994. She was towed by the tugboatPuma from the Massachusetts Towing Company and moored at Pier 2 at the Naval Station inNewport,Rhode Island. She was then acquired by theNaval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Key West Detachment atKey West,Florida, for use by theNaval Air Systems Command Marine and Targets Detachment as a remotely controlled submersible sonar target ship, as an underwater acoustic target for antisubmarine warfare research and development, in operational testing, and for training.
After completing that service, she was towed to theNaval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility at Philadelphia, where the U.S. Navy held her for donation to a museum, but all preservation efforts failed. In May 2008Esco Marine ofBrownsville,Texas, was awarded a contract to scrap her, and her scrapping was completed on 27 February 2009.
Battle Efficiency Award
National Defense Service Medal with star (2 awards)
This article incorporates text from thepublic domainDictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be foundhere. This article incorporatespublic domain material fromTrout (SS-566) at theNaval Vessel Register.
