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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

Grenadier (SS-525)

Radio Call Sign: November - Yankee - Kilo - India

Tench Class Submarine: Laid down, 8 February 1944, at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA.; Launched, 15 December 1944; Construction suspended in 1946; Completed as a Guppy type submarine, and Commissioned USS Grenadier (SS-525), 10 February 1951; Decommissioned, struck from the Naval Register, and transferred (sold) under terms of the Security Assistance Program to Venezuela, 15 May 1973 following ceremony at Key West, FL. as ARV Picua (S-13). Final Disposition;Decomm. 16 November 1978, stricken 1 January 1980 & sold 18 June 1981 to Verlome Shipyard, Angra Dos Reis, Brazil.
Partial data submitted by Ron Reeves, HTC, USNR (ret.)

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 1,570 t., Submerged: 2,414 t.; Length 311' 8"; Beam 27' 4"; 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 7 Officers, 69 Enlisted; Armament, ten 21" torpedo tubes, six forward, four aft, 24 torpedoes, one 5"/25 deck gun, two single 20mm guns; two /30 cal. machine guns; Patrol Endurance 75 days; Propulsion, diesel-electric reduction gear with four main generator motors, Fairbanks-Morse diesel engines, HP 6,400. Fuel Capacity, 113,510 gal., Elliot electric motors, HP 2,740, four 126-cell main storage batteries, two propellers.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
	222k	Broadside view of a cutout of a GUPPY design.	Photo courtesy of ussgrampus.com. Photo added 01/15/10.
	182k	Overhead view of a cutout of a GUPPY design.	Photo courtesy of ussgrampus.com. Photo added 01/15/10.
	44k	Grenadier (SS-525) underway 1952, place unknown.	Photo courtesy of Rudy Diaz.
	215k	Sail away, 1950's version: Three different types appear in this photo: Archerfish (SS-311), Grenadier (SS-525) & Chopper (SS-342) in Key West, Fla, during the 1950's.	Photo courtesy of John Hummel, (USN) retired. P
	22k	Amberjack (SS-522) & Grenadier (SS-525), at Key West, FL., circa mid-50's?	Photo courtesy of ussgrenadier.com.
	475k	Irex (SS-482) & Grenadier (SS-525), tied up to the wharf in Monoco, February 1956 while conducting submarine warfare training with the 6th Fleet.	U.S. Navy Photograph courtesy of Ed Martin LCDR,USN(Ret.) Partial text courtesy of DANFS. Photo i.d. courtesy of Brent Duncan.
	165k	Grenadier (SS-525), entering N.Y. City harbor and passing the Statue of Liberty. Photo was taken Armed Forces Day 1957. It was used in the *Grenadier's* 1957 Christmas card.	Photo courtesy of Brent Duncan, former *Grenadier* webmaster/ ussgrenadier.com.
	28k	Grenadier (SS-525), while alongside the Reynolds Aluminum Bauxite pier in Ocho Rios, Jamaica circa 1959.	Text courtesy of Brent Duncan, former *Grenadier* webmaster. Photo courtesy of ussgrenadier.com.
	282k	In this undated file photo U.S. Navy Adm. Jerauld Wright, Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, personally congratulates each member of the crew of the diesel submarine Grenadier (SS-525) for providing proof that the Soviet Union was conducting submarine operations in the Atlantic Ocean. On 29 May 1959 he gave them a case of Jack Daniels Old No. 7 Black Label Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey.	U.S. Navy photo # N-0000X-056 by MC1 Todd A. Schaffer courtesy of Bill Gonyo.
	93k	KEY WEST, Fla. - In this undated file photo Lt. Cmdr. Ted Davis, center, marks a "Z" on the sail of the Tench-class diesel submarine Grenadier (SS-525) as Commander Submarine Squadron 12 Capt. Fritz Harlfinger, left, and Commander Submarine Division 122 Cmdr. Brez Betzel look on. Davis was able to claim the mock "Z" after tracking a Soviet Zulu-class submarine for more than 18 hours, leading to the first documented evidence that the Soviet Union was conducting submarine operations in the Atlantic Ocean. The event was an intelligence coup for the U.S. military.	U.S. Navy photo courtesy of the Veterans Hour via Bill Gonyo.
	168k	Sail away, 1960's version: As many different types of sails as there are boats in this photo of Squadron 12, Key West Fla, in Mid 60's: Atule (SS-403), Balao (SS-285), Grenadier (SS-525) & Bluegill (SS-242).	Photo courtesy of John Hummel, (USN) retired.
	44k	Grenadier (SS-525) in Toulon, France, 1965.	Photo courtesy of John Hummel, (USN) retired. P
	320k	Grenadier (SS-525) broadside in Malta, 24 April 1965.	Photo courtesy of John Hummel, (USN) retired. P
	106k	Forward torpedo room looking forward towards tubes.	Photo courtesy of John Hummel, (USN) retired. P
	104k	Forward torpedo room looking after towards forward battery on Grenadier (SS-525).	Photo courtesy of John Hummel, (USN) retired. P
	86k	After engine room on Grenadier (SS-525).	Photo courtesy of John Hummel, (USN) retired. P
	66k	Bow view of the Grenadier (SS-525) sonor chin in drydock.	Photo courtesy of John Hummel, (USN) retired. P
	143k	Mixed bag of boats from different bases moored together possibly at the Key West Naval Base or at Roosevelt Roads, P.R. From left to right & front to back: From New London with the eight ball plaque of subron 8; Blenny (SS-324); from Key West with the subron 12 plaque: Grenadier (SS-525); from Norfolk with the subron 6 plaque; Carp (SS-338) & again from Key West; the Balao (SS-285) tied up to the pier. Behind them and from Charleston with subron 4 is the Trigger (SS-564) and an unidentified boat. *Grenadier* received her high sail in an overhaul in 1961-62. I found a picture of *Blenny* that showed her with a high sail that was dated 18 Apr 1966. All of the boats in the photo were known to have been based in, or operating out of, Key West in the period of 1962-1966. Therefore, I can reliably conclude that this photo was taken between 1962 and 1966. *Grenadier* and Balao (SS-285) participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis blockade in October, 1962. In November, *Grenadier* was one of several ships that participated in a maritime rights show of force exercise off Cuba. It is conceivable that these other boats were dispatched to the area as backup in case this exercise went south. So it's possible that this photo was taken during late 1962 during the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis.	Photo by Tim "T-Spoon" Spoon & submitted by John Hummel. Text I.d. courtesy of John Hummel, Mike Keating & Dave Johnston.
ARV Picua (S-13)
	955k	Article and photo of the CO and three guys off Grenadier (SS-210) sunk in WWII. It was taken at the decommissioning and transfer of Grenadier (SS-525) to Venezuela. The article appeared in the "Key West Outpost" (the base paper) on 23 May 1973. As an interesting side note, the paper got the hull number wrong, in the first line of the article. Grenadier (SS-210) was the one lost in WWII.	Photo & article courtesy of Mike Keating.