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Uss Cubera (Ss-347) | style="text-align: center" colspan="2"| | | lign ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career (US) | align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|USN Jack | | rdered: | | | aid down: | 11 May 1944 | | aunched: | 17 June 1945 | | ommissioned: | 19 December 1945 | | ecommissioned: | 5 January 1972 | | truck: | 5 January 1972 | | ate: | sold to Venezuela | | lign ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career (Venezuela) | align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Venezuelan Navy Ensign | ommissioned
(Tiburon): | 1972 | | ecommissioned: | | | truck: | | | ate: | scrapped, 1989 | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | isplacement,
Surfaced:
Submerged: |
1,526 tons (1550 t),
2,424 tons (2460 t) | | ength: | 311.8 ft (95.0 m) | | eam: | 27.3 ft (8.3 m) | | raft: | 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) | | ropulsion: | 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 | | ange: | 11,000 nmi. (20,000 km)
surfaced at 10 knots | | omplement: | 66 officers and enlisted | | rmament: | ten 21" torpedo tubes,
(six forward, four aft),
24 torpedoes,
one 5"/25 deck gun,
four machine guns | | otto: | USS Cubera (SS-347), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the cubera, a large fish of the snapper family found in the West Indies. Cubera (SS-347) was launched 17 June 1945 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.; sponsored by Mrs. J. Taber; commissioned 19 December 1945, Lieutenant Commander R. W. Paine, Jr., in command; and reported to the Atlantic Fleet. After shakedown training off New London, Cubera arrived at Key West, Fla., 19 March 1946. She tested sonar equipment, provided services to experimental antisubmarine warfare development projects in the Florida Straits, and joined in fleet exercises until 4 July 1947 when she sailed to Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for an extensive GUPPY II modernization. Returning to Key West 9 March 1948 Cubera continued to operate locally out of this port, as well as taking part in fleet exercises in the Caribbean and Atlantic until 3 July 1952 when she arrived at Norfolk, her new home port. Cubera appeared in Ray Harryhausen's It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955), playing an "atomic sub" used to dispatch the film's giant octopus. Through 1957 Cubera conducted local operations, and participated in fleet exercises in the Caribbean, as well as cruising to Sydney, Nova Scotia, in June 1955. During 1959 and 1960, she was assigned to Task Force Alfa, a force conducting constant experiments to improve antisubmarine warfare techniques. With this group she cruised the western Atlantic from Nova Scotia to Bermuda. ARV Tiburon (S-12) Cubera was decommissioned and sold under the Security Assistance Program to Venezuela 5 January 1972. The Venezuelan Navy renamed her ARV Tiburon (S-12) (Tiburon means "shark" in Spanish). She was subsequently scrapped by Venezuela in 1989.
References External links Cubera 347 Tiburon 012
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