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Uss Boarfish (Ss-327) style="text-align: center" colspan="2"|
AndPossiblyHere | | lign ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|USN Jack | | rdered: | | | aid down: | 12 August 1943 | | aunched: | 21 May 1944 | | ommissioned: | 23 September 1944 | | ecommissioned: | 23 May 1948 | | truck: | 23 August 1948 | | ate: | | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | isplacement,
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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,
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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 Boarfish (SS-327), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the boarfish, a fish having a projecting hog-like snout. Boarfish (SS-327) was launched 21 May 1944 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.; sponsored by Miss Barbara Walsh, daughter of Senator Arthur Walsh of New Jersey, and commissioned 23 September 1944, Commander R. L. Gross in command. Boarfish arrived at Pearl Harbor 2 December 1944. Between 24 December 1944 and 10 August 1945 she made four war patrols in the South China Sea, Java Sea, and Gulf of Siam. She is credited with sinking one freighter of 6968 tons and combining with units of the 14th Air Force to sink another of 6890 tons. She operated out of Guam (31 August – 17 November 1945) on training exercises and then returned to San Diego, arriving early in February 1946, She remained on the West Coast until 1 October 1946 when she began a cruise to Midway Island; Marcus Island; Okinawa; Tsingtao, China; and Guam which lasted until November. Except for a voyage to Pearl Harbor in February 1947 and one to Alaska and Canada during July–November 1947, Boarfish remained in the San Diego area until 15 November 1947. She then went to Mare Island Naval Shipyard for overhaul preparatory to transfer to Turkey. She departed Mare Island 21 February 1948 and sailed, via the Panama Canal and New London, Conn., to Izmir, Turkey where she was decommissioned and turned over to the Turkish Navy 23 May 1948, in which she was recommissioned as TCG Sakarya (S-332) Boarfish was struck from the Naval Register and transferred (sold) to Turkey under terms of the Security Assistance Program, 23 August 1948. She was returned to US custody for scrapping, 1 January 1974. Boarfish received one battle star for her service in World War II.
References External links Boarfish 327
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