 USS Hardhead (SS-365) sometime after May 1953.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Hardhead |
| Namesake | Hardhead |
| Builder | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin[1] |
| Laid down | 7 July 1943[1] |
| Launched | 12 December 1943[1] |
| Commissioned | 18 April 1944[1] |
| Decommissioned | 10 May 1946[1] |
| Recommissioned | 6 February 1952[1] |
| Decommissioned | 22 May 1952[1] |
| Recommissioned | 24 March 1953[1] |
| Decommissioned | 26 July 1972[1] |
| Stricken | 26 July 1972[2] |
| Identification | SS-365 |
| Fate | Transferred to Greece, 26 July 1972[1] |
 Greece | |
| Name | Papanikolis |
| Acquired | 26 July 1972 |
| Stricken | 4 May 1993 |
| Identification | S-114 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap 1993 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
| Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
| Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | |
| Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[6] |
| Endurance |
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| Test depth | 400 ft (120 m)[6] |
| Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[6] |
| Armament |
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| General characteristics (Guppy IIA) | |
| Class and type | none |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 307 ft (93.6 m)[8] |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.3 m)[8] |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m)[8] |
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USS Hardhead (SS-365), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the hardhead, a fish of the croaker family.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Friedman, Norman (1995). U.S. Submarines Through 1945: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. pp. 285–304. ISBN 1-55750-263-3.
- ^ a b c d e f g Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 275–280. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
- ^ a b c d e Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 275–280. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9.
- ^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 261–263
- ^ a b c U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
- ^ a b c d e f U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305-311
- ^ a b c d e f g Friedman, Norman (1994). U.S. Submarines Since 1945: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. pp. 11–43. ISBN 1-55750-260-9.
- ^ a b c d U.S. Submarines Since 1945 pp. 242