USS Mapiro
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Mapiro (SS-376) |
| Builder | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin |
| Laid down | 30 May 1944 |
| Launched | 9 November 1944 |
| Commissioned | 30 April 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 16 March 1946 |
| Recommissioned | 14 November 1959 |
| Decommissioned | 18 March 1960 |
| Stricken | 1 August 1973 |
| Fate | Transferred to Turkey, 18 March 1960, sold to Turkey 1 August 1973 |
| Turkey | |
| Name | TCG Piri Reis (S 343) |
| Namesake | Ottoman Admiral Piri Reis |
| Acquired | 18 March 1960 |
| Commissioned | 24 June 1960 |
| Out of service | 1973 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1980 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Balao class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Endurance |
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| Test depth | 400 ft (120 m) |
| Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted |
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USS Mapiro (SS-376), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the mapiro, a fish of the Gobioidea suborder occurring off the West Indies and the Atlantic coasts of Central America and Mexico.