USS Barbel (SS-580)

Immersed in 2645 tons standard

66.9 m

8.8 m

8.5 m

About 10 officers, 70 teams

Diesel electric, one shaft

About 20 knots

6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes

History

SS -580 was commissioned in 1955 and set in 1956 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kiel. 1959 was the submarine from the stack and was christened by Mrs. Bernard L. Austin, the wife of an admiral in the name of Barbel, according to the Barbe. In the same year, the submarine was placed in service.

After the test drives Barbel was stationed at Naval Station Norfolk in early 1961 and docked again in the Portsmouth NSY, to correct minor errors and to lay the down elevator to the tower. In addition, welds of pipes were examined after at first diving test water had penetrated into the boat and it would have sunk beihnahe.

End of 1961, the boat was moved to San Diego in 1962 then continue west to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. From there, the boat moved for the first time in the Western Pacific. 1964 Barbel in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was outdated. 1965/1966, it moved a second time, for a short time in Vietnamese waters, where the Vietnam War had begun. in the Gulf of Tonkin collided Barbel with a North Vietnamese freighter and sank this case. After their return, the damage in the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard have been fixed.

The end of 1966 Barbel but not moved again, this time in Vietnamese waters. Followed in 1968 by another overhaul in the Pearl Harbor NSY. In the summer of 1969, the boat moved back to the Far East, just over the New Year 1970/1971, 1972 and 1974. 1975 Barbel in Iceland Naval Shipyard Mare was overtaken, until the end of 1976, the boat left the wharf. 1977 followed the next use ride in the Western Pacific.

1989 three crew members of the Barbel were washed overboard when the submarine only one of the three could be saved from Japan on the surface drove. At the end of the submarine was decommissioned. 2001, the Barbel was sunk as a target ship in an exercise off California.