USS Caiman (SS-323) [SEP] vessel class
USS Caiman
USS "Caiman" (SS-323), a "Balao"-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy that was later transferred to the Turkish Naval Forces in 1972 under the Security Assistance Program, where she was recommissioned as the third TCG "Dumlupınar". She was retired in 1986.
Career (US).
Originally "Blanquillo", the vessel was renamed on 24 September 1942 after the caiman, a fresh water alligator inhabiting the Amazon River, and launched on 30 March 1944 by Electric
life comfortable. All that remains today has been destroyed by time and nature. The school and other places have been levelled to the ground and grown over by vines and jungle.
In February 1956 the United States submarine Caiman (SS-323) en route from Tahiti to Nuka Hiva in the Marquesas encountered the "MV Nasarada", under Capt Oto Orbeck, in distress several miles from Makatea at about 05:00hrs. The vessel had nine persons and six pigs on board. Unable to repair the engine, USS "Caiman" towed