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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, six 21" torpedo tubes forward & 2-19” torpedo tubes aft for Mk 37 torpedoes, eight MK-49/57 mines; Propulsion, diesel-electric, Fairbanks-Morse Type 3 diesel engines, HP 4500, two electric motors, HP 5600, 2 shafts/propellers.
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Wahoo3.53m25 page PDF showing General Plans for the Wahoo (SS-565). US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
PDF added 07/13/10.
Wahoo55kWahoo (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.
Wahoo190kForward port quarter view of Wahoo (SS-565) off East Coast on 14 July 1952. USN photo # 1791-52, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
Wahoo210kElectric 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.
Wahoo24kWahoo (SS-565), 1950's entering Pearl Harbor.Courtesy of Grant Riddle / submarinebaseph.com
Wahoo56kWahoo (SS-565) is pictured departing Fremantle,Australia on June 1958. Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
SS-322, 563,565 & 567 328k Tang (SS-563), Wahoo (SS-565),Gudgeon (SS-567) & Blackfin (SS-322) at the sub base, Pearl Harbor. Circa 1958. Looks like a Change of Command for SubRon 7 is taking place. Photo courtesy of Dan Craw ETC/SS Ret. Tang SS563, 1968-71. Text i.d. courtesy of Ken Wiltshire.
Carp241kThis photo is of one of three Tang class (SS-563 / 568) boats:
Tang (SS-563), Wahoo (SS-565),Gudgeon (SS-567). The rest of the Tang class boats had different sail configurations.
Photo courtesy of Ron Phillipi.
Photo i.d. courtesy of Dave Johnston (USNR) & John Hummel. Text i.d. courtesy of Dave Johnston (USNR).
Carp241kThis photo is of one of three Tang class (SS-563 / 568) boats:
Tang (SS-563), Wahoo (SS-565),Gudgeon (SS-567). The rest of the Tang class boats had different sail configurations.
Photo courtesy of Ron Phillipi.
Photo i.d. courtesy of Dave Johnston (USNR) & John Hummel. Text i.d. courtesy of Dave Johnston (USNR).
Wahoo27kWahoo (SS-565), underway, circa 1960.Courtesy of George M. Arnold.
Barbero260k Barbero (SSG-317), Wahoo (SS-565) and Aspro (SS-309) tied along dock in Hong Kong, November 1959.
The destroyer Halsey Powell (DD-686) is behind the Aspro.
Photograph courtesy of Ron Phillipi.
Wahoo50kJuicy Lucy II and other ships at the sub piers Pearl Harbor HI, Nov 1968.
This ship was sort of like a converted LSM (or such) that would cruise around Pearl scooping up waste oil, etc. Look closely at the front of it. I think you can see it is open.
Photo & text courtesy of Richard Leonhardt.
Devilfish89kDevilfish (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.
Tang 193k Tang (SS-563),Wahoo (SS-565) & Gudgeon (SS-567) at Pearl Harbor, late 60's, early 70's. Courtesy of Rick Rowe & Ed Kalinosk via Dan Craw ETC/SS Ret. Tang SS563, 1968-71.
Wahoo50kWahoo (SS-565), Trout (SS-566) & Albacore (AGSS-569) at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Trout has been overhauled for Iran. Wahoo had not, and wasn't overhauled due to the revolution in Iran in 1979. Photo courtesy of John Hummel.
Wahoo22kWahoo (SS-565), 3 July 1979 Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Photo courtesy of John Hummel.
Wahoo87kWahoo (SS-565), at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Navy Yard, 1980.Photo by PH1 Frank Jankowski, courtesy of John Hummel.

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