АҚШ-тың «Балао» классындағы теңіз астығымы және Түркиядағы қызметі

Balao class submarine of the United States Navy

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Transferred to United States 1975
Sold for scrap
8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged Beahan was only Blueback's non combat casualty.

On 31 August 1945, Blueback got underway from Subic Bay bound for Guam in the Mariana Islands, where she arrived on 4 September 1945. She was assigned to Submarine Squadron 36 and conducted daily underway training. On 28 November 1945, she left Guam in company with Submarine Squadron 3 for a training cruise to the Caroline Islands and Admiralty Islands. The submarines returned to Guam on 15 December 1945. Blueback departed Guam on 12 January 1946 bound for San Diego, California. She conducted operations locally from San Diego unti1 12 August 1946, when she embarked upon a cruise to the Far East. Her ports of call included Pearl Harbor, Truk in the Caroline Islands, Subic Bay, and Tsingtao and Shanghai in China. She returned to San Diego on 29 November 1946 and resumed local operations. On 17 February 1947, she set out on a training voyage to Pearl Harbor. After several weeks of operations in Hawaiian waters, she returned to San Diego on 4 April 1947 and resumed local operations and training along the coast of California, which she continued until March 1948. On 4 March 1948, Blueback departed San Diego and, after a stop at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut, proceeded across the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea to İzmir, Turkey, where she arrived on 11 May 1948. She was decommissioned and transferred to Turkey on 23 May 1948. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 May 1948.

On 25 May 1948, the submarine was commissioned in the Turkish Naval Forces as TCG İkinci Inönü (D 2) (also written TCG 2. Inönü (D 2), English "Second Inönü"), the second of three Turkish submarines named for the Second Battle of İnönü, fought from 23 March to 1 April 1921 during the Greco Turkish War of 1919–1922, a part of the larger Turkish War of Independence. İkinci Inönü received the new pennant number S 18 in 1955, and in 1959 was renumbered S 331 in accordance with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) pennant system. After long service in the Turkish Naval Forces, İkinci Inönü was decommissioned and transferred back to the United States on 30 November 1973. She then was renamed TCG Ceryan Botu 2 (Y 1241) and it was used to charge the batteries of other submarines until 1975. She subsequently was transferred back to the United States and sold for scrapping.