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219k | Tiru (SS-416) is seen leaving dry dock #3 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 11 Aug 1948. She was being outfitted at the yard after her delayed launching. | USN photo # 1352-8-48, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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202k | Broadside view of Tiru (SS-416) being moved to her outfitting berth after being undocked from dry dock #3 at Mare Island on 12 Aug 1948. | USN photo # 1351-8-48, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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133k | The crew of the soon to be commissioned Tiru (SS-416) is seen on the steps of the base theater at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 18 Aug 1948. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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174k | Commissioning ceremonies aboard Tiru (SS-416) at Mare Island on 1 September 1948. | USN photo # 1576-9-48, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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61k | CDR. Charles Nelson Grant Hendrix was the Commanding Officer of the Tiru (SS-416) from 1 September 1948 to 15 August 1950. | Photo from the USS Buck (DD-761) cruise book courtesy of Bill Gonyo. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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110k | Tiru (SS-416) with a step sail. | Photo i.d. courtesy of John Hummel. U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. |
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267k | Aerial view of Tiru (SS-416) on 8 Nov 1949. | USN photo # 4892-11-49, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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268k | Tiru (SS-416) during final departure ceremonies at Mare Island on 10 Feb 1949. | USN photo # 3009-2-49, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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157k | Broadside view of Tiru (SS-416) off Mare Island upon her final departure from the yard on 10 Feb 1949. Note that her sail bulges out at its top. The radio direction finding loop, which was used mainly to receive VLF radio messages while submerged, was soon replaced by a smaller streamlined loop. The sonar doom forward housed one transducer of a WFA single ping searchlight(the other projected from below the hull); the passive trainable JT abaft it retracted into the deck. |
USN photo # 3017-2-49, courtesy of Darryl Baker.Text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Since 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman & James L. Christley, Naval Institute Press. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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597k | The Tiru (SS-416) & Besugo (SS-321) in living color, 1954-54 at Pearl Harbor. | Photo courtesy of John Hummell. Photo added 10/08/11. |
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322k | Port side view of the Tiru (SS-416) cutting through Pacific waters in GUPPY IIB configuration, circa mid 1950's. | Photo courtesy of Henry Trujillo, submitted by Robert B. Cushman of Cushman Engineering Co.,ETR3 SS (Ret). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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464k | Tiru (SS-416) at Pearl Harbor circa 1959. | U.S. Navy Photo # 1677-43, courtesy of Darryl Baker. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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152k | Tiru (SS-416), as a Guppy III submarine, circa post 1959. | Courtesy of George M. Arnold. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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54k | Tiru (SS-416) as a Guppy III submarine, circa post 1959. | Courtesy of John Hummel. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1.1k | Tiru (SS-416) aground on the Fredrich reef off Queensland, 6 November 1966. | Photo from Flickr.com via Stephen Gower
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Commemorative postal cover of the Tiru (SS-416), with the boat's patch, 1974. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle. |
 28k | Clamagore (SS-343) against pier, Tiru (SS-416), Blenny (SS-324) & Albacore (AGSS-569), circa early 80's at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. | Courtesy of John Hummel. Photo I.d. submitted by Ron Reeves, HTC, USNR (ret.) |
 151k | The Silversides (SSN-679) and ex-Tiru (SS-416) lie alongside each other circa July 1979. The Tiru was being prepared as a remote-controlled
target for the Silversides. Volunteers from the Silversides (SS-236) preservation group also removed spare parts from the Tiru.
| USN photo courtesy of Fred Tannenbaum collection. |
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A model Tiru (SS-416) |
Photo courtesy of John Hummel. |
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A collage of photos depicting the Tiru (SS-416) about to be hit, striking and then sinking after being used as a weapons test for the Mark 48 torpedo as a target off Norfolk, VA., 19 July 1979. |
Stephen Alexander who was aboard Silversides (SSN-679) wrote the following about the Tiru's last dive when they fired the standard Mk 48 torpedo at Tiru after a Type IIB periscope approach in 1979. The CO was the approach officer as you might imagine. I’ll never forget that day. We could hear her braking up over the WQC underwater telephone and in SONAR as she went down in about 2500 fathoms. It was, to say the least, an eery and sobering experience! May she rest in peace and I thank the Lord that it was a SINKEX, and nobody was aboard except a radio-controlled “Iron Mike!” Your website said that Tiru was sunk with a Mark 48 ADCAP, but for the record, that’s not the case. It was a randomly selected, “off-the-shelf” so to speak, standard Mk 48 as required by the SINKEX opord. I don’t remember the mod if it was higher than zero, but it definitely wasn’t an ADCAP. In fact the ADCAP wasn't deployed to the fleet until after I left active duty in 1984. BTW, the shoot was actually delayed by about 4 hours because as we were making our first approach, we spotted a merchant just coming over the horizon. The SRV Ortolan then tried to contact the merchant, but to no avail. We had already gotten a firing solution on him via SONAR long before we had a visual, and his projected track went right through the firing range, a 25-mile radius circle in the middle of the ocean. The merchant had wandered into it despite weeks of notices to mariners warning to stay out of that area for several days before and after the SINEX was scheduled. Maybe she was a spy, we wondered. Anyway Tiru had been towed to the range by the Ortolan, as I recall, ironically, and she didn’t have much fuel aboard. All but one engine had been unshipped. Ortolan's helo controlled Tiru by radio for her run across the firing range. We had only loaded enough fuel for her last run because we didn’t want an unnecessary oil spill in the ocean. So after the merchant finally steamed away, we had to turn Tiru around and send her back through harm's way one more time. This time it was for good. Text contributed by Steve Alexander, LT, USNR, Ret. |
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