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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

Patches contributed by Mike Smolinski

Cubera (SS-347)

Radio Call Sign: November - Juliet - Sierra - Hotel

Balao Class Submarine: Laid down, 11 May 1944, at Electric Boat Co., Groton, CT.; Launched, 17 June 1945; Commissioned USS Cubera (SS-347), 19 December 1945; Decommissioned and simultaneously struck from the Naval Register, 5 January 1972; Final Disposition; sold under the Security Assistance Program to Venezuela,as ARV Tiburon (Shark) S-12. Decomm. & sold 2-87.
Partial data submitted by Ron Reeves, HTC, USNR (ret.)

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 1,526 t., Submerged: 2,242 t.; Length 311' 9"; Beam 27' 3"; Draft 15' 3"; Speed, Surfaced 20.25 kts, Submerged 8.75 kts; Cruising Range, 11,000 miles surfaced at 10kts; Submerged Endurance, 48 hours at 2kts; Operating Depth, 400 ft; Complement 6 Officers, 60 Enlisted; Armament, ten 21" torpedo tubes, six forward, four aft, 24 torpedoes, one 5"/25 deck gun, one 40mm gun, one 20mm gun, two .50 cal. machine guns; Patrol Endurance 75 days; Propulsion, diesel-electric reduction gear with four main generator engines., General Motors diesel engines, HP 5400, Fuel Capacity 118,000, four General Electric motors, HP 2,740, two 126-cell main storage batteries, two propellers.

Size	Image Description	Source
18k	Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of the keel laying of the Cubera (SS-347), 11 May 1944, at Electric Boat Co., Groton, CT.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
119k	Cubera (SS-347), slides down the ways at Electric Boat Co., Groton, CT., 17 June 1945.	Courtesy of usssubvetsofwwii.org.
17k	Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of the Cubera's (SS-347) launching on 17 June 1945.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
38k	Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of the Cubera's (SS-347) commissioning on 19 December 1945.	Courtesy of petloveshack.com. Photo added 04/11/07.
99k	Cubera (SS-347), surface view of the bow at the Philadelphia Naval Ship Yard, 19 Feb. 1948.	Courtesy of usssubvetsofwwii.org.
83k	Medregal (SS-480), Clamagore (SS-343) & Cubera (SS-347), at Key West in 1948.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
33k	Cubera (SS-347), making an emergency surface, (broaching) circa 1960, place unknown.	US Navy photo contributed by Ray Cheesborough and James Lewis, courtesy of saragossa.net
39k	Cubera (SS-347), bow planes control wheel, circa 1960.	US Navy photo contributed by Ray Cheesborough and James Lewis, courtesy of saragossa.net.
62k	Portside view of the Cubera (SS-347), 1960, place unknown.	Courtesy of usssubvetsofwwii.org.
43k	Cubera (SS-347), heading into port, circa 1960.	US Navy photo contributed by Ray Cheesborough and James Lewis, courtesy of saragossa.net.
141k	Cubera (SS-347), at Norfolk, VA, 1964.	© Richard Leonhardt.
119k	Cubera (SS-347), portside view underway, 1964.	Contributed by Russ Padden, photo i.d. by Robert Hirst.
75k	The Guavina's (AGSS-362) final moments above the ocean floor as seen through the periscope of the Cubera (SS-347), following a Mark 16 torpedo test off the coast of Cape Henry, Virginia, 11 November 1967.	Photo courtesy of Ron Norford.
44k	Cubera (SS-347), underway, date and place unknown.	US Navy photo courtesy of George M. Arnold.