U.S.S. Trout
SS-566
1954
(Quadrant)
- Class: Tang - 6 diesel fast attack submarines of 1947
- Displacement: 2,100 tons surfaced / 2,700 tons submerged
- Dimensions: 287' x 27'3" x 19'
- Machinery: Diesel-electric, Fairbanks-Morse Type 3 diesel engines 4500 HP, and two electric motors 5600 HP, single screw = 20 knots surfaced / 18 knots submerged
- Torpedo Tubes: 8-21"
- Complement: 83
- Builder: General Dynamics Corp. Electric Boat Co. Div., Groton, CT
- Keel Laid: 1 Dec 1949
- Launched: 21 Aug 1951
- Commissioned: 27 Jun 1952
- Decommissioned: 19 Dec 1978
- Notes: Transferred to Iran Dec 1978 and renamed Kousseh. Abandoned by her Iranian crew at New London Mar 1979 following the Iranian revolution. Returned to US Navy in 1992 and used as experimental ship and target sub at Key West from 1994. Still extant at Philadelphia in 2007.
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