USS Trout (SS-566)

USS Trout, ca. 1969.
History
United States
Name:	USS Trout
Namesake:	Trout, a number of species of freshwater and saltwater fish belonging to the Salmoninae subfamily of the Salmonidae family
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:	19 December 1978
Struck:	19 December 1978
Honors and awards:	Battle Efficiency Award (Battle "E") 1961
Fate:	Transferred to Iran 19 December 1978; became IIS Kousseh (SS 101) Abandoned in United States March 1979 Returned to U.S. custody 1992 Scrapping contract awarded May 2008 Scrapping completed 27 February 2009
General characteristics
Class and type:	Tang-class submarine
Displacement:	1,615 long tons (1,641 t) light 2,108 long tons (2,142 t) surfaced 2,700 long tons (2,743 t) submerged
Length:	269 ft (82 m)
Beam:	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft:	20 ft (6.1 m)
Speed:	16.3 knots (18.8 mph; 30.2 km/h) surfaced 17.4 knots (20.0 mph; 32.2 km/h) submerged
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 fish.

The contract to build Trout was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation of Groton, Connecticut, on 14 May 1948 and her keel was laid down there on 1 December 1949. She was launched on 21 August 1951, sponsored by Mrs. Albert H. Clark, the widow of Lieutenant Commander Albert H. Clark, the last commanding officer of the previous U.S. Navy ship of the name, Trout (SS-202). Trout was commissioned on 27 June 1952, with Commander George W. Kittredge in command.

Trout operated out of New London, Connecticut, as a unit of Submarine Squadron 10 from 1952 to 1959. During this period, she conducted training and readiness operations with ships of the United States Atlantic Fleet and North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations, operating from the North Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Sea. She engaged in sonar evaluation tests, antisubmarine warfare exercises, and submerged simulated attack exercises. During submerged exercises in Arctic waters in company with her sister ship Harder, Trout transited 268 nautical miles (496 km; 308 mi) beneath ice floes off Newfoundland, Canada, setting a submerged distance record for a conventionally powered submarine.

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