| 词条 | USS Barracuda (SSK-1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The three SSK boats, Barracuda (SSK-1), Bass (SSK-2), and Bonita (SSK-3), were equipped with the large BQR-4 bow-mounted sonar array as part of Project Kayo, which experimented with the use of passive acoustics via low-frequency bow-mounted sonar arrays. When the boat was rigged for silent running, these arrays gave greatly improved convergence zone detection ranges against snorkeling submarines. The SSKs themselves were limited in their anti-submarine warfare capabilities by their low speed and their need to snorkel periodically, but the advances in sonar technology they pioneered were invaluable to later nuclear-powered submarines. The class was developed as mobilization prototypes should large numbers of Soviet submarines based on the Type XXI U-boat appear. Barracuda joined Submarine Development Group 2, which was stationed at her home port of New London, Connecticut. She cruised along the Atlantic coast of the United States and Canada, in the Caribbean Sea, and made a voyage to Greenock and Rothesay, Scotland, in June 1955. On 15 December 1955 her name was changed from K-1 to Barracuda (SSK-1). During intervals between and after these cruises, Barracuda operated along the eastern seaboard carrying out training and experimental exercises. Redesignation and service as training submarineIn 1958, the Soviet threat changed from conventional to nuclear-powered submarines, and the SSK force was withdrawn from the SSK role and redesignated. Barracuda was redesignated SST-3 on 15 July 1959 and operated for the next several years out of Charleston, South Carolina and Key West, Florida. Barracuda was overhauled from 1963 to 1964 at Norfolk, Virginia, during which her distinctive forward sonar array was removed and replaced with a streamlined bow - similar to submarines converted to GUPPY configurations. In 1965 she conducted training operations out of Key West, Florida. In 1968 she was transferred to Charleston, South Carolina and served as a training platform for junior officers and enlisted personnel. On 1 August 1972 she was redesignated as SS-T3.[1][5] Although, based on redesignation of her sisters as SS-551 and SS-552, the hull number SS-550 was probably reserved for her, she never officially held this designation. FateBarracuda was decommissioned on 1 October 1973 at Charleston and was stricken on the same day. She was scrapped between 8 April and 8 July 1974 near Charleston, South Carolina. References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 {{Citation | last = Bauer | first = K. Jack | author-link = | last2 = Roberts | first2 = Stephen S. | author2-link = | title = Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants | place = Westport, CT | publisher = Greenwood Press | year = 1991 | page = 284 | isbn = 0-313-26202-0 }} 2. ^{{cite book | last = Friedman | first = Norman | authorlink = | title = U.S. Submarines Since 1945: An Illustrated Design History | publisher = United States Naval Institute | year = 1994 | location = Annapolis, Maryland | pages = 75–82, 241–242 | url = | doi = | isbn = 1-55750-260-9 }} 3. ^Friedman, p. 77 4. ^Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, Jimmy Carter's Naval Service. Retrieved 5 February 2008 5. ^DANFS entry for Barracuda
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