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![]() USS Trout, ca. 1969.
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Name | USS Trout |
Namesake | Trout, a number of species of freshwater and saltwater fish belonging to the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae |
Awarded | 14 May 1948 |
Builder | Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, Connecticut |
Laid down | 1 December 1949 |
Launched | 21 August 1951 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Albert H. Clark |
Commissioned | 27 June 1952 |
Decommissioned | 2 January 1977[1] |
Stricken | 19 December 1978 |
Honors and awards | Battle Efficiency Award (Battle "E") 1961 |
Fate | Transferred to Imperial Iranian Navy 19 December 1978 |
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Name | IIS Kousseh (SS 101) |
Namesake | Shark |
Acquired | 19 December 1978 |
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Class and type | Tang-class submarine Attack submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 269 ft (82 m) |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
Draft | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
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Test depth | 700 ft (210 m) |
Complement | 8 officers and 75 men |
Armament | 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 forward, 2 aft) |
USS Trout (SS-566), a Tang-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the trout.