6/2/2023 0 Comments Powerhorse rc 421 ss![]() She was originally assigned the name Tomtate, often misspelled as Tomatate, and would have made her the only ship named for the tomtate, a food fish of warm American waters having a compressed body, a toothless palate, and conical jaw teeth, but was renamed Trutta on 24 September 1942. ![]() USS Trutta (SS-421), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the trutta, a variety of trout, distinguished from the typical trout by its small, black spots and its smaller and fewer scales. One diesel engine and generator removed.48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged.2 × low-speed direct-drive Elliott electric motors ġ1,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h).4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 10- cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators.Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
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