Status: Still serving...

[Truckman]

The USS Cutlass (SS-478) was commissioned in the US Navy just prior to the end of WWII on 3/17/1945, and embarked on its first war patrol in the Pacific on 7/17/1945...It went on to serve in all the world's oceans for 28 years when it was overhauled, decommissioned, and transferred to the Navy of the Republic of China where it still serves as part of Taiwan's seagoing military...At the moment it is receiving another overhaul and refitting, including a refresh for its four 75 year old Fairbanks-Morse 10 cylinder diesel engines...After this $19 million overhaul its officers and crew will rejoin the Taiwanese fleet on patrol in the now contested South China Sea...It's still entirely possible that its torpedo tubes could be opened in anger against a Chicom target...

As usual, I can't hear the audio in the following YouTube video, so if it's in Chinese, don't blame me......Ben

[Dave Grubb]

The audio is in English

That is absolutely amazing

[Truckman]

The audio is in English

That is absolutely amazing

I gotta get this thing fixed then...

The Cutlass (now Hai Shih, or Sea Lion) was commissioned less than a month before the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), then launched as a US Army vessel, FP-344, and today the second longest serving US Navy warship, although it has been held captive in North Korea over 50 years where the tyrannical Kim family dynasty has continued to thumb its nose at ten successive US Presidents who have yet to display enough spine to return this prisoner of war to its rightful shores...The only commissioned US warship any older is the USS Constitution, which carries no hull classification, nor number......Ben

[wacojoe]

I would hate to be on that thing if a conflict broke out. I’m sure the ChiComs and everybody else could hear and detect it from a thousand miles away.

[wacojoe]

Cold War submarine service was not without dangers —

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...-weapons-66882