US Navy's Chanticleer-class submarine rescue ship “Coucal” (ASR-8) at Hong Kong, May 1972
Builder: Moore Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Oakland, California
Displacements: 1,653 standard, 2,290 full load
Length overall: 76.7 m
Draft: 4.55 m
Propulsion: Alco diesel-electric, 3,500 b.h.p.
Complement: 85 peace-time, 102 war-time
Launched 29 May 1942
Commissioned 22 January 1943
Struck from Naval Register 15 September 1977
Sunk as a target, 16 January 1991