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View from the bow of Boarfish (SS-327) in the Chukchi Sea in 1947
Career (US)
Name:	USS Boarfish (SS-327)
Builder:	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut [1]
Laid down:	12 August 1943 [1]
Launched:	21 May 1944 [1]
Commissioned:	23 September 1944 [1]
Decommissioned:	23 May 1948
Struck:	28 May 1948 [1]
Fate:	Transferred to Turkey, 23 May 1948 [1]
Career (Turkey)
Name:	TCG Sakarya (S-332)
Acquired:	23 August 1948
Out of service:	1972
Fate:	Returned to US custody for scrapping, 1 January 1974
General characteristics
Class and type:	Balao-class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:	1,526 tons (1550 t) surfaced 2,424 tons (2460 t) submerged
Length:	311 ft 9 in (95.0 m) [1]
Beam:	27 ft 3 in (8.3 m) [1]
Draft:	16 ft 10 in (5.1 m) maximum [1]
Propulsion:	4 × General Motors Model 16 V16 diesel engines, total 5,400 bhp (4.0 MW) 4 × General Electric electric motors, total 2,740 bhp (2.0 MW) two propellers [1]
Speed:	20.25 knots (37 km/h) surfaced 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged
Range:	11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Endurance:	48 hours at 2 knots (4 km/h) submerged 75 days on patrol
Test depth:	400 ft (120 m)
Complement:	6 officers, 60 enlisted
Armament:	10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes  (six forward, four aft)  24 torpedoes 1 × 5 in (127 mm) / 25 caliber deck gun four machine guns

USS Boarfish (SS-327), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the boarfish, a fish having a projecting hog-like snout.

Boarfish (SS-327) was launched 21 May 1944 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.; sponsored by Miss Barbara Walsh, daughter of Senator Arthur Walsh of New Jersey, and commissioned 23 September 1944, Commander R. L. Gross in command.

Boarfish arrived at Pearl Harbor 2 December 1944. Between 24 December 1944 and 10 August 1945 she made four war patrols in the South China Sea, Java Sea, and Gulf of Siam. She is credited with sinking one freighter of 6968 tons and combining with units of the 14th Air Force to sink another of 6890 tons.

She operated out of Guam (31 August–17 November 1945) on training exercises and then returned to San Diego, arriving early in February 1946, She remained on the West Coast until 1 October 1946 when she began a cruise to Midway Island; Marcus Island; Okinawa; Tsingtao, China; and Guam which lasted until November. Except for a voyage to Pearl Harbor in February 1947 and one to Alaska and Canada during July–November 1947, Boarfish remained in the San Diego area until 15 November 1947.

She then went to Mare Island Naval Shipyard for overhaul preparatory to transfer to Turkey. She departed Mare Island 21 February 1948 and sailed, via the Panama Canal and New London, Conn., to İzmir, Turkey where she was decommissioned and turned over to the Turkish Navy 23 May 1948, in which she was recommissioned as TCG Sakarya (S 332).

Boarfish was struck from the Naval Register and transferred (sold) to Turkey under terms of the Security Assistance Program, 23 August 1948. She was returned to US custody for scrapping, 1 January 1974.

Boarfish received one battle star for her service in World War II.

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Bauer, K. Jack & Roberts, Stephen S. (1991), Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-26202-0

This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

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