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Photo # NH 97019:  USS Pickerel surfacing at a 48 degree up angle, off Oahu, Hawaii, 1 March 1952.

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USS Pickerel (SS-524), 1949-1972

USS Pickerel (SS-524), a 1570-ton Tench class submarine, was built at the Boston Navy Yard. Her construction was suspended in 1946 and she was ultimately completed to the streamlined "GUPPY" ("Greater Underwater Propulsive Power") configuration. Commissioned in April 1949, Pickerel was sent to the Pacific in August and spent her U.S. Navy operational career in that ocean. In March and April 1950 she made a record 5200-mile submerged trans-Pacific voyage. Later in that year, she served in the Korean War zone.

During the next two decades, Pickerel deployed to Asiatic waters on several occasions. She was given a "GUPPY III" modernization in 1962 that lengthened her hull and visibly gave her a larger "sail" and three prominent "PUFFS" sonar fins. During the later 1960s, she was employed off Vietnam. USS Pickerel was decommissioned and loaned to Italy in August 1972. She was sold to that nation five years later. The Italian Navy renamed her Primo Longobardo and kept her in service until 1980.

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Photo #: NH 97020

USS Pickerel (SS-524)


Off the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, New Hampshire, 21 July 1949.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 97019

USS Pickerel (SS-524)


Surfacing at a 48 degree up angle, during tests off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 1 March 1952.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 85082

USS Pickerel (SS-524)


Surfacing at a 48 degree up angle, from a depth of 150 feet, during tests off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 1 March 1952.

Donation of Captain Allan Brown, USNR(Retired), 1976.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 58KB; 550 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 97021

USS Pickerel (SS-524)


Off the Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, during the mid-1950s.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 97022

USS Pickerel (SS-524)


Underway off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 17 January 1963.
Photographed by PH2 D.C. Smith, USN.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 116KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: USN 1140854

USS Pickerel (SS-524)


Underway in the Pacific Ocean, September 1969.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 122KB; 740 x 620 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1140854.

 
Photo #: NH 97017

USS Pickerel (SS-524)


"Crew members of the streamlined submarine USS Pickerel are shown beside a huge lei presented to the officers and men as the submarine docked at Pearl Harbor today, Nov. 4. She was among the first Pearl Harbor based submarines to return from the Korean War Zone."
The original photograph was released by 14th Naval District PIO, and is dated 4 November 1950.
The sailors are standing on Pickerel's bow, by her sonar dome and jackstaff.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 625 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 66764-KN (Color)

Insignia: USS Pickerel (SS-524)

Photograph of a jacket patch received from the ship in 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 108KB; 565 x 675 pixels

 


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Text corrected and coding upgraded 13 August 2003