USS Harder (SS-568)

USS Harder (the three distinctive shark-fin domes are the PUFFS sonar).
History
United States
Name	USS Harder
Builder	Electric Boat Company
Laid down	30 June 1950
Launched	3 December 1951
Commissioned	19 August 1952
Decommissioned	31 January 1974
Stricken	20 February 1974
Identification	SS-568
Fate	Sold to Italy, 1974
Italy
Name	Romeo Romei
Commissioned	18 August 1974
Decommissioned	31 May 1988
Identification	S 516
General characteristics
Class and type	Tang-class submarine Attack submarine
Displacement	2,050 long tons (2,083 t) surfaced 2,700 long tons (2,743 t) submerged
Length	277 ft 2 in (84.48 m)
Beam	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft	17 ft (5.2 m)
Speed	15.5 knots (17.8 mph; 28.7 km/h) surfaced 18.3 knots (21.1 mph; 33.9 km/h) submerged
Test depth	213 m (699 ft)
Complement	8 officers and 75 men
Armament	8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (6 forward, 2 aft)

USS Harder (SS-568), a Tang-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the harder, a fish of the mullet family found off South Africa.