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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

Patch on left contributed by Don McGrogan, BMCS, USN (ret.), other patches contributed by Mike Smolinski

Trout (SS-566)

Radio Call Sign: November - Victor - Mike - Zulu

Tang Class Submarine: Laid down, 1 December 1949, at the Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Co., Groton, CT.; Launched, 21 August 1951; Commissioned, USS Trout (SS-566), 27 June 1952, at Sub Base New London, CT.; Decommissioned, struck from the Naval Register, and transferred to Iran, 19 December 1978, renamed Kousseh; Abandoned by her Iranian crew at New London in March 1979 following the Iranian revolution; Returned to US Navy custody in 1992; Final Disposition, used as an experimental ship in 1994 and a target sub at NAWCAD Key West.

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 screw.

Size	Image Description	Source
119k	The Trout (SS-566) slides down the launching ways at the Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Co., Groton, CT., 21 August 1951.	Photo courtesy of All Hands Magazine, Nov. 1951 & submitted by Stanley Svec.
49k	The newly completed Trout (SS-566) shows her GUPPY-like sail (the raised forward part helped to protect the periscopes when they were raised at speed). The open bridge was soon raised to the level of the top of the sail and the raised portion cut down. The sonar dome on deck covers a QHB-1 transducer. A retractable keel dome covered another QHB-1 transducer and a QXB-1 "sonarmic" passive torpedo-detection set. Abaft the deck dome is the trainable array of the JT passive attack sonar.	Photo & text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Since 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman & James L. Christley. Naval Institute Press.
263k	December 1953 photo of four boats, among them the Cobia (SS-245), outboard, unidentified boat, the Trout (SS-566) and another unidentified boat tied up alongside the submarine tender Fulton (AS-11) during her role as the tender for Submarine Squadron TEN at New London, Connecticut.	Photo courtesy of All Hands Magazine & submitted by Ric Hedman TN(SS). Text courtesy of cshore.com.
47k	Trout (SS-566), port side view, 1956.	Courtesy of usstroutss566.com.
226k	Busy piers at lower base in Groton shows a few SSKs, 1957. From left to right, unidentifed sub, Toro (SS-422), Irex (SS-482), unidentifed sub, Trout (SS-566), Bergall (SS-320), Sea Owl (SS-405), Cavalla (SS-244), & Remora (SS-487), & Piper (SS-409). The rest of the subs are too far away for positive identification.	Text courtesy of Dave Johnston. Photo i.d. courtesy of Mike Brood. USN photo courtesy of Submarine Force Library, courtesy of Ken Hart.
394k	Trout (SS-566), moored in Key West, FL.	US Navy photo courtesy of Bob Hall.
18k	Trout (SS-566), port side view, in Key West, FL.	Courtesy of usstroutss566.com.
80k	Trout (SS-566), underway, date and place unknown.	US Navy photo courtesy of Stanley Svec.
24k	Trout (SS-566), port side view, date and location unknown.	Courtesy of L. Waters QM3(SS) 1962-64.
16k	The Trout (SS-566) underway, circa 1965, probably when she participated in training and developmental exercises off the east coast and in the Caribbean.	US Navy photo courtesy of Robert Hurst. Text courtesy of DANFS. Photo added 03/07/07.
118k	Harder (SS-568) & Trout (SS-566) taken in 1965 thru 8B periscope of Redfin (SS-272) by John Hummel at the sub piers in Charleston SC, home of Submarine Squadron 4.	Photo courtesy of John Hummel.
73k	Island details of Trout (SS-566). A periscope and antenna are visible in a partially raised position, as well as the windscreen for the conning station on the forward part of the sail.	Courtesy of AO3 Brian S. Bell, USNR.
70k	Trout (SS-566) underway, circa 1969.	USN photo courtesy of ssn583.com.
84k	The Trout (SS-566), left and the Gudgeon (SS-567) right are in dry dock #4 at Mare Island in Feb 1973. Both boats were in dock from 22 Feb until 3 Oct 1973. *Gudgeon* was in overhaul from 22 Feb until 21 Dec 1973 and *Trout* from 22 Feb 1973 until 28 Jan 1974. Photo from the 9 Mar 1973 edition of Mare Island's newspaper "Grapevine".	Courtesy of Darryl L. Baker.
78k	Trout (SS-566) lies moored at the reserve basin of the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 7/15/74. She has been transported from NAS Key West and has recieved a new paint job. Her hull shows many areas of rusting through, however, and will require attention in the near future. She is available for donation as a museum and can be viewed at the Navy Ship Donation Program's website.	Courtesy of AO3 Brian S. Bell, USNR.
71k	A standard early postwar sonar space is shown on Trout (SS-566) at the Phila. Naval Shipyard, 1993. With the elimination of the conning tower, the eyepeices of the periscopes were brought down into the former control room, which was split into a diving station (to port, with ballast and plane controls) and an attack center (to starboard) with a raised periscope stand between them. The sonar space (shown here) was on a low platform (extending out from the periscope stand) on the forward starboard side of the control room, next to the helm.	Photo & text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Since 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman & James L. Christley. Naval Institute Press.
47k	At Philadelphia, the Trout (SS-566), 2004, with a *Spruance Class* Destroyer, the Moosbrugger (DD-980), in the background.	Courtesy of John Hummel.
38k	Trout (SS-566) under tow in Philadelphia, 2007.	Photo courtesy of Mike Wheeler via Jack Treutle. Photo added 03/07/07.