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Wahoo (SS-565)

Radio Call Sign: November - Papa - Whiskey - India

Tang Class Submarine: Laid down, 24 October 1949, at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME.; Launched, 16 October 1951; Commissioned, USS Wahoo (SS-565), 30 May 1952; Decommissioned, 27 June 1980; Struck from the Naval Register 15 July 1983; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in November 1984. Wahoo earned three battle stars for service in the Vietnam conflict.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 2,100 t., Submerged: 2,700 t.; Length 287'; Beam 27' 3"; Draft 19'; Speed, Surfaced 20 kts, Submerged 18 kts; Complement 8 Officers 75 Enlisted; Armament, eight 21" torpedo tubes, eight MK-49/57 mines; Propulsion, diesel-electric, Fairbanks-Morse Type 3 diesel engines, HP 4500, two electric motors, HP 5600, single propeller.

Size	Image Description	Source
55k	Wahoo (SS-565) slides down the ways at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME., 16 October 1951.	Courtesy of All Hands Magazine, Jan. 1952, submitted by Stan Svec.
190k	Forward port quarter view of Wahoo (SS-565) off East Coast on 14 July 1952.	USN photo # 1791-52, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
210k	Electric Boat's Wahoo (SS-565) is pictured about 1955; her cockpit has been raised to the top of her sail. The white objects are messenger buoys.	US Navy Photo & text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Since 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman & James L. Christley.Naval Institute Press.
24k	Wahoo (SS-565), 1950's entering Pearl Harbor.	Courtesy of Grant Riddle / submarinebaseph.com
56k	Wahoo (SS-565) is pictured departing Fremantle,Australia on June 1958.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
69k	Tang (SS-563), Wahoo (SS-565),Gudgeon (SS-567) & Blackfin (SS-322) at the sub base, Pearl Harbor, circa 1958.	Photo courtesy of ussgudgeon.photosite.com
27k	Wahoo (SS-565), underway, circa 1960.	Courtesy of George M. Arnold.
89k	Devilfish (SS-292), being sunk as a target by Wahoo (SS-565) at San Francisco, CA., 14 August 1968.	U.S. Navy photo courtesy of ussubvetsofworldwarii.
22k	Wahoo (SS-565), 3 July 1979 Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.	Photo courtesy of John Hummel.
87k	Wahoo (SS-565), at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Navy Yard, 1980.	Photo by PH1 Frank Jankowski, courtesy of John Hummel.

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DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

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