uss bergall (ss-320)

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aunched:	16 February 1944 16 February 1944
ommissioned:	12 June 1944
ecommissioned:	17 October 1958
ate:	loaned, then sold, to Turkey
tricken:	1 February 1973
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isplacement:	1626 tons
ength:	311 ft 9 in (95 m)
eam:	27 ft 3 in (8.3 m)
raft:	16 ft 10 in (5.1 m)
ropulsion:
peed:	20.3 knots (38 km/h)
ange:
omplement:	66 officers and men
rmament:	1 x 5 in (127 mm) gun, 10 x 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
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USS Bergall (SS-320), a Balao-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bergall, a small fish of the New England coast. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 16 February 1944 sponsored by Mrs. J. A. Elkins, and commissioned on 12 June 1944 with Lieutenant Commander J. M. Hyde in command. Assigned to the Pacific Fleet, Bergall arrived at Pearl Harbor 13 August 1944. Operating out of Fremantle, Australia, the submarine made five war patrols between 8 September 1944 and 17 June 1945 in the South China Sea, Java Sea, Lombek Strait, and north of the Malay Barrier. During these patrols Bergall sank two merchantmen totaling 14,710 tons and one 740-ton frigate. While patrolling off the Malay coast, 13 June 1945, she was damaged aft by a naval mine explosion and forced to retire to Subic Bay, Luzon, for emergency repairs, arriving 17 June. Proceeding home for permanent repairs, she arrived at Portsmouth Navy Yard on 4 August 1945. Following repairs Bergall rejoined the Pacific Fleet in December 1945 She remained on active duty with the Pacific Fleet until departing Pearl Harbor for the Atlantic 10 June 1950. During this time she made one cruise to the Far East from 4 December 1948 to 28 February 1949. On 11 July 1950 she transferred to New London, Connecticut, beginning her operations with the Atlantic Fleet with a Mediterranean Sea cruise.

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On 26 September 1958, Bergall left the United States, entered the Mediterranean on 9 October, and arrived in Izmir, Turkey, on 15 October, where she was decommissioned on 17 October. Bergall received four battle stars during World War II. Ex-Bergall was transferred, on loan, to Turkey that same day, where she served as TCG Turgut Reis (S 342 ). Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 February 1973, and she was sold to the Turkish government on 15 February 1973. Turgut Reis served in the Turkish Navy until scrapped sometime in 1977. See USS Bergall for other ships of the same name.

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