[REL] USS Requin GUPPY I Submarine Mod

[JesterV2]

USS Requin GUPPY I Version 1.01

USS Requin, a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named after the requin, French for shark. Since 1990 it has been a museum ship at The Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Her keel was laid down on 24 August 1944 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. She was launched on 1 January 1945 sponsored by Mrs. Slade D. Cutter, and commissioned on 28 April 1945 with Commander Slade D. Cutter in command.

From June through August 1959 the Charleston Navy Yard in South Carolina removed all Requin’s radar equipment and improved her streamlining. Upon her conversion to Fleet Snorkel configuration, she was given hull classification symbol SS-481 on 15 August 1959, and rejoined SubRon 6 in Norfolk for operations as a normal attack submarine, a role she retained until her decommissioning.

Requin conducted local operations off the East Coast and in the Caribbean Sea. In the summer of 1961 "Requin" served as a target for Task Group Alpha led by USS Saratoga CVA 60. "Requin" conducted a periscope approach on Saratoga and launched a simulated torpedo attack. Then a helicopter dropped an exercise torpedo on "Requin" which hit forward and made several re-attacks bouncing down the port side of the submarine. On 20 September 1963, Requin completed her 5000th dive. From 7 January 1964 into May she operated with the Sixth Fleet, then resumed her Second Fleet duties into 1968, interrupted only twice for extended deployments. Operation UNITAS VII in the fall of 1966 called for Requin to cruise around the South American continent for exercises with various South American navies and her last Sixth Fleet deployment sent her back to the Mediterranean for duty from 4 April to 27 July 1967.

Requin’s last Mediterranean deployment began on 4 April 1967. On 8 June, just as she completed a series of exercises with the U.S. Sixth Fleet, she received word that the U.S. signals intelligence ship Liberty (AGTR-5) was under attack. Requin’s crew prepared to go to the defense of Liberty, but received orders from the Sixth Fleet commander to surface and proceed to Crete.

On 28 May 1968, during her last deployment before decommissioning, Requin departed Norfolk, Virginia, as part of the search effort for the missing nuclear attack submarine Scorpion (SSN-589). On 29 June 1968, Requin was reclassified AGSS-481 and in October 1968 she began inactivation at Naval Station Norfolk. Decommissioned on 3 December 1968, she was towed to St. Petersburg, Florida in February 1969 and served there as a non-powered Naval Reserve training vessel for Naval Reserve Center St. Petersburg, adjacent to Albert Whitted Airport and Coast Guard Air Station St. Petersburg. On 30 June 1971 Requin was reclassified as IXSS-481, and on 20 December 1971 she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register.

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I'm proud to introduce my very first submarine mod!

You can start your career in 1941 at the base in Manilla.

Installation: Unpack everything in your JSGME MODS folder,you can choose either the historical version or the museum version.
These are paint schemes as they were in the time period as stated, black for historical and a black white for museum.
Be sure that the Requin mod is the last mod in you JSGME list.




Changelog
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Version 1.0
<no changelog for first version>

Version 1.01
-Fixed periscope depth (the subs were visible to destroyers at periscope depth)
-Repositioned periscopes

Terms of use
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- This model is free and anyone downloading and using it should not obtain any kind of material advantages from it.
- You are free to host this mod, reference it or post links leading to it.
- If you want to use it in one of your mods, feel free to do it, and notify me.
- If you want to modify the model and/or use parts from it into other projects of yours, feel free to do that, but credit me for the orriginal work (and notify me, please!).

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
CapnScurvy
Rockin Robbins
Delanski
J0313
Propbeanie
ETR3(SS)

For providing Information and Support! They deserve as much credit for this mod as i do, I cannot thank you guys enough!

I hope to bring you more mods to enjoy, and its an honour to contribute to this great community!

Feel free to criticise and point me to possible improvements, I'm here to learn!

download: USS Requin