SHIPS: Sub question

Googling SS 423 returns several sites for the USS Torsk. IIRC this was a Guppy refit. Guppy III maybe?

WmB

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Anybody know what ship Hull #423 is? She appears to be a modernised Fleet class and a museum exhibit.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Looking through Dad's photo books

SS423 "Torsk" is a Tench-class sub. Modernized postwar, and eventually preserved in 1972. Where she is now I do not know, but maybe you can get something with a Google search.

Mark Schynert

I think that's the U.S.S. Torsk. She's sitting in Baltimore's inner harbor tonight. W.W.II boat that has been "Guppy'd".

Bill Shuey

If she's been there awhile then I know where he took the pics. It's amazing how many photos have no information attached. Bad as mine...

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Deactivated 1968, moved to Baltimore in 1972, established as a memorial and open to the public since 1973.

John Hairell ( snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com)

Torsk was a "fleet snorkel" conversion, not a Guppy. This was a less expensive refit to fleet submarines. In fleet snorkel conversions (18 in all), the submarine received a snorkel and a streamlined fairwater around the sail. The Guppy recived a much more extensive refit, including improved batteries, and (in some conversions) expanded batteries (4 X 126 cells vs. 2 X 126 cells).

The fleet snorkel can be reedily distinguished from the Guppy class by the bow. The fleet snorkel retains the raked, pointed bow, whereas the Guppy class got a modified, rounded bow.

See Torsk fleet snorkel photo at:

Tom Dougherty ( snipped-for-privacy@aol.com)

AHA! Yep, the pictures I have show a raked bow and a sharkmouth painted thereon! Thanks, Tom.

Bill Banaszak, MFE