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USS Porpoise (SS-172) – amerykański okręt podwodny z czasów drugiej wojny światowej o wyporności podwodnej 1965 ton. Okręt wiodący typu Porpoise i pierwsza jednostka z kilku typów jednostek określanych jako fleet submarine.
The Porpoise class were submarines built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s, and incorporated a number of modern features that would make them the basis for the subsequent Salmon, Sargo, Tambor, Gato, Balao, and Tench classes.
10 kwi 2017 · USS Porpoise (SS-172) led her 10-strong class prior to and during World War 2 (1939-1945). The boat was a conventional diesel-electric-powered attack submarine armed with six torpedo tubes and sixteen total torpedoes.
Porpoise (SS-172) was the first of a new generation of submarines that developed into the successful WW II fleet boats. Her design shows much of the standard above water configuration for U.S. submarines completed through 1942.
USS Porpoise (SS–172), the fifth United States Navy ship to bear her name, was the lead ship of her class of submarines.
By the time the final boat was launched—the USS Sand Lance (SSN-660) in 1969—Portsmouth had built 134 submarines. Given problems with construction in private yards over the intervening half century, the author argues it may be time to revisit constructing submarines in Navy-owned yards.
USS Porpoise (SS-172) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 13 October 1942. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
