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Tullibee 1960

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
SSN597	Tullibee	151	Electric Boat, Groton	26.5.1958	27.4.1960	9.11.1960	stricken 6.1988

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	2316 / 2607
Length, m	83.2
Breadth, m	7.10
Draught, m	5.80
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 Westinghouse steam turbine generator, 1 Combustion Engineering S2C nuclear reactor, 1 electric motor
Power, h. p.	2500
Max speed, kts	12.9 / 14.8
Fuel, t	nuclear
Endurance, nm(kts)	practically unlimited
Armament	4 - 533 Mk 64 TT (amidships, 12)
Electronic equipment	BPS-9 radar, BQQ-2 (BQR-7 + BQS-6), BQG-1 PUFFS sonars, WLR-1 ECM suite
Complement	56
Diving depth operational, m	210

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Project history

Tullibee was an attempt to build a minimum nuclear submarine specifically for ASW; originally she was to have been even smaller than she turned out to be, and ultimately she was somewhat underpowered, with an S2C reactor reportedly producing only 2500shp, one-third of the Skate power plant. She was completed with the BQQ-3 sonar and quartet of hull-mounted torpedo tubes of the Threshers, but was not fitted to fire SUBROC. She also had a prototype turbo-electric drive, for quietness.

Modernizations

1970s: - BQQ-2 sonar suite; + BQQ-3 (BQS-12 + BQR-7) sonar suite

Naval service

No significant events.