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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USSCubera |
| Builder | Electric Boat Company,Groton, Connecticut[1] |
| Laid down | 11 May 1944[1] |
| Launched | 17 June 1945[1] |
| Commissioned | 19 December 1945[1] |
| Decommissioned | 5 January 1972[1] |
| Stricken | 5 January 1972[2] |
| Identification | SS-347 |
| Fate | Transferred toVenezuela, 5 January 1972[1] |
 Venezuela | |
| Name | ARVTiburon |
| Acquired | 1972 |
| Identification | S-12 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1989 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Balao-classdiesel-electricsubmarine[2] |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
| Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | |
| Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[3] |
| Endurance |
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| Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[3] |
| Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[3] |
| Armament |
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| General characteristics (Guppy II) | |
| Class & type | none |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 307 ft (94 m)[6] |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)[6] |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[6] |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed |
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| Range | 15,000 nmi (28,000 km) surfaced at 11 knots (13 mph; 20 km/h)[6] |
| Endurance | 48 hours at 4 knots (5 mph; 7 km/h) submerged[6] |
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USSCubera (SS-347), aBalao-classsubmarine, was a ship of theUnited States Navy named for thecubera, a large fish of thesnapper family found in theWest Indies.
Cubera (SS-347) was launched 17 June 1945 byElectric Boat Co.,Groton, Conn.; sponsored by Mrs. J. Taber; commissioned 19 December 1945 and reported to theAtlantic Fleet.
After shakedown training offNew London,Cubera arrived atKey West,Fla., 19 March 1946. She testedsonar equipment, provided services to experimental antisubmarine warfare development projects in theFlorida Straits, and joined in fleet exercises until 4 July 1947 when she sailed toPhiladelphia Naval Shipyard for an extensiveGUPPY II modernization.
Returning to Key West 9 March 1948Cubera continued to operate locally out of this port, as well as taking part in fleet exercises in theCaribbean andAtlantic until 3 July 1952 when she arrived atNorfolk, her new home port.
Cubera appeared inRay Harryhausen'sIt Came from Beneath the Sea (1955), playing an "atomic sub" used to dispatch the film's giantoctopus.
Through 1957Cubera conducted local operations, and participated in fleet exercises in the Caribbean, as well as cruising toSydney, Nova Scotia, in June 1955. During 1959 and 1960, she was assigned toTask Force Alfa, a force conducting constant experiments to improve antisubmarine warfare techniques. With this group she cruised the western Atlantic fromNova Scotia toBermuda.
Cubera was decommissioned and sold under the Security Assistance Program toVenezuela 5 January 1972. TheVenezuelan Navy renamed herARVTiburon (S-12) ("Tiburon" meansshark inSpanish). She was subsequently scrapped by Venezuela in 1989.
This article incorporates text from thepublic domainDictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entries can be foundhere andhere.
