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USS TRUTTA SS 421

SS 421   TRUTTA   Malta   27 04 1970                                         (  Original  b & w  negative in collection )

SS 421   TRUTTA
FLAG : U.S.A
TYPE : TENCH - CLASS SUBMARINE
LAID DOWN : 22 05 1944
LAUNCHED  : 18 08 1944
COMMISSIONED : 14 11 1944
DECOMMISSIONED : 01 07 1972

USS TRUTTA was decommissioned in march 1946 and laid up at New London / Groton.
Re-commissioned on 01 march 1951 to be decommissioned again at Charleston Naval Shipyard,SC on 4 may 1952 for GUPPY II A modernisation. Commissioned after conversion on 2 January 1953.
Finally decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register on the first of July 1972 and transferred by sale to TURKEY. She was renamed : TCG  CERBE  S 340. 




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