USS Carbonero
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USS Carbonero (SS/AGSS-337) was a Balao-class submarine, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the carbonero, a salt-water fish found in the West Indies.
USS Carbonero (SS-337) about to tie up inboard of USS Gudgeon (SS-567) at Pearl Harbor, c. 1963.
Shot Frigate Bird, 600 kilotons of TNT (2,500 TJ), as viewed from the submarine USS Carbonero. Only full-scale US test of a strategic missile system.
Montage of the end of Carbonero; sunk as a target by USS Pogy firing a Mk 48 torpedo off Pearl Harbor on 27 April 1975
The Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program (GUPPY) was initiated by the United States Navy after World War II to improve the submerged speed, maneuverability, and endurance of its submarines. (The "Y" in the acronym was added for pronounceability.)
USS Greenfish after GUPPY III modernization. Visible on deck are the three distinctive shark-fin domes of the PUFFS sonar.
Pomodon after GUPPY I.
USS Cubera, after GUPPY II modernization
USS Thornback after GUPPY IIA modernization