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TCG Pirireis

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ7669700 ↗
Source-derived summary

TCG Pirireis or TCG Piri Reis is the name of the following submarines of the Turkish Navy, named for Piri Reis:

TCG Pirireis (S 343), ex-USS Mapiro (SS-376), a Balao-class submarine transferred on loan under the Military Assistance Program to Turkey on 18 March 1960. Sold outright to Turkey, 1 August 1973. Disposed of in 1973.

TCG Pirireis (S 343), ex-USS Tang (SS-563), lead Tang-class submarine leased to Turkey on 8 February 1980, sold on 6 August 1987, and decommissioned in August 2004.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1973, 1980, 1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pirireis, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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This entry incorporates text from “TCG Pirireis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.