USS Barracuda (SSK-1)

The USS Barracuda (SSK -1) was the lead ship of the Barracuda - class of the United States Navy. She was the first boat of the new type of killer boats, which was specifically designed to hunt other submarines.

History

The submarine was still under the name USS K-1 (SSK -1 ), 1949 at Electric Boat Keel-laying and left after less than two years from the stack. Godmother was Mrs. Alice B. Thomas, the commander of the submarine USS Pompano (SS -181 ) that was sunk in World War II widow. On November 10, 1951, the submarine was transferred to the fleet of the U.S. Navy.

After the test runs, the K -1 of the Submarine Development Group was assigned to 2, a research group for submarine technologies. There the boat was used for the study of anti- submarine tactics. The first years spent K- 1 with such exercises, they rarely left the coast of the United States, about to calls at Nassau, Havana and Halifax. In 1955, the Chief of Naval Operations, Robert B. Carney, the wish to assign a name to the boat. The commander of the K-1 hit killer before or alternatively Barracuda. The latter proposal was accepted by the end of 1955, Secretary of the Navy Charles S. Thomas. In June 1955, the submarine was the first time far from home waters, as it conducted port visits in Scotland. By 1959, then again followed local operation for the SubDevGru 2

On 15 July 1959, the identification SSK -1 was changed to SST- 3, that classified the boat as a training boat. By 1962, followed by an overhaul. In 1964, in an overhaul in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard the oversized Bugsonar removed so that the Barracuda could better simulate conventional submarines. In 1968 the boat was then used for the training of personnel of the missile submarines.

On 1 October 1973, the Barracuda was decommissioned, sold to the Addlestone International Corp. and scrapped from the Georgetown Steel Corp..