"FISH" OUT OF WATER — The USS Torsk submarine, built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire in 1944 and the last submarine to fire a torpedo and sink a ship during World War II, gets a routine drydocking for testing, cleaning, and painting at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Baltimore repair yard. The Torsk now is a tourist attraction in Baltimore's Inner Harbor and drew 96,000 visitors in 1980.
"FISH" OUT OF WATER
Photo caption
Photo caption reporting the routine drydocking of the World War II submarine USS Torsk at Bethlehem Steel's Baltimore repair yard; the vessel is now a tourist attraction in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
Mentioned in this article
Vessel
- USS Torsk World War II submarine, now tourist attraction
Company
- Bethlehem Steel Corporation operator of Baltimore repair yard
Organization
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard builder of Torsk, New Hampshire
GeoLocation
- Baltimore's Inner Harbor
Transcribed from the November 1981 print edition of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News. Text is OCR-derived and may contain errors.