USS Mapiro (SS-376)
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| Career (U.S.) |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 30 May 1944 |
| Launched: | 9 November 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 30 April 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 March 1946 |
| Struck: | 1 August 1973 |
| Fate: | transferred to Turkey, 18 March 1960 |
| Career (Turkey) |  |
| Commissioned: | 24 June 1960 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 November 1973 |
| Struck: | |
| Fate: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement, Surfaced: Submerged: |
1,526 tons (1550 t), 2,424 tons (2460 t) |
| Length: | 311.8 ft (95.0 m) |
| Beam: | 27.3 ft (8.3 m) |
| Draft: | 15.3 ft (4.6 m) |
| Depth limit: | 400 ft (120 m) |
| Speed, Surfaced: Submerged: |
20.25 knots (37 km/h) 8.75 knots (16 km/h) |
| Propulsion: | four 5400-hp diesel engines four 2740-hp (2.0 MW) electric motors, two propellers |
| Submerged Endurance: | 48 hours at 2 knots |
| Patrol Endurance: | 75 days |
| Range: | 11,000 nmi. (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots |
| Complement: | 66 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | ten 21" torpedo tubes, (six forward, four aft), 24 torpedoes, one 5"/25 deck gun, four machine guns |
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USS Mapiro (SS-376), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the mapiro, a fish of the Gobioidea suborder occurring off the West Indies and the Atlantic coasts of Central America and Mexico.
Mapiro was laid down by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, Wisc., 30 May 1944; launched 9 November 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Philip H. Ross; and commissioned 30 April 1945, Commander Vincent A. Sisler, Jr., in command.
Following trials on Lake Michigan, Mapiro entered a floating drydock at Lockport, Ill.; and was towed down the Chicago and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, La., to be readied for duty in the South Pacific. She sailed for the Canal Zone 31 May, arriving off Balboa 5 June for training. On the 28th the submarine got underway for Hawaii in company with Cutlass (SS-478), arriving Pearl Harbor 15 July.
Mapiro sailed for the Marianas on her first war patrol 4 August, arriving off Saipan the day Japan surrendered, 15 August. She remained on observation patrol until returning to the west coast in September, arriving at San Francisco for deactivation by the 25th.
On 16 March 1946 Mapiro decommissioned to enter the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Mare Island, Calif., 1 January 1947.
[edit] TCG Piri Reis (S 343)
In 1960, Mapiro was converted to a Fleet Snorkel submarine. On 18 March 1960 she was transferred on loan under the Military Assistance Program to Turkey. The Turkish Navy renamed her TCG Piri Reis (S 343), after Piri Reis (ca. 1465–1554), an Ottoman admiral and cartographer. She left San Francisco on 16 May 1960 for Istanbul via the Panama Canal, with her new Turkish crew. Piri Reis arrived in Gölcük on 23 June 1960. She was commissioned into Turkish Navy the day after.
The submarine was struck from the US Naval Register, and sold outright to Turkey, 1 August 1973; she was disposed of by the Turkish navy in 1973.
[edit] References
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
