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USS S-5 (SS-110) was launched at Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, on 10 November 1919, and commissioned about four months later. As August of 1920 drew to a close, she set out for an area off the Delaware Capes [...]

USS S-5 (SS-110) was launched at Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, on 10 November 1919, and commissioned about four months later. As August of 1920 drew to a close, she set out for an area off the Delaware Capes [...]

On 27 July 2006, the Navy’s Deep Submergence Unit (DSU) at Naval Base Coronado in California was awarded a Meritorious Unit Commendation in part because of a rescue mission they undertook in the opening days of August 2005. [...]

Subic Bay lies just to the north of the much larger and better-known Manila Bay on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. On 21 April 1945, USS BOARFISH (SS-327), commissioned on 23 September 1944, pulled in after completing the [...]

On 17 October 1944, USS RUNNER (SS-476) slid down the ways at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. By May of 1945 she was in Pearl Harbor; soon thereafter she headed out on her first war patrol. Although she was [...]

On the morning of 25 August 1949, USS COCHINO (SS-345) and USS TUSK(SS-426) were engaged in a training exercise north of the Arctic Circle in the roiling waters of the Barents Sea. The following is from a publication, entitled “Submarine [...]

Commissioned on 2 December 1942 at Electric Boat Company in Groton, CT, USS HARDER (SS-257) set off from Pearl Harbor on her first war patrol just seven months later. What followed was a streak of incredibly successful patrols, notably the [...]

After nearly three years of construction, USS KENTUCKY (SSBN-737) was ready to be launched on 11 August 1990. But the ceremony that sent her into the waters of the Thames River had a bit of a twist, as detailed in [...]

At 0555 on the morning of 24 July 1943, Lieutenant Commander L.R. “Dan” Daspit, the commanding officer of USS TINOSA (SS-283), spotted the Japanese fleet’s largest tanker as it headed straight for his sub. Tonan Maru No. 3 weighed over [...]

On 14 September 1959, the keel of USS ETHAN ALLEN (SSBN-608) was laid down at General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, CT. Although she was the sixth of the “41 for Freedom” ballistic-missile submarines, she was the first specifically designed [...]