Submarine History

USS GRAYLING (SS-209) stood out from Fremantle, Australia, to begin her eighth war patrol on 30 July 1943. The boat was fresh off a 24-day refit and had a brand-new C.O., Lieutenant Commander Robert M. Brinker. (His predecessor, Lieutenant Commander [...]

In March of 1975, a Sailor who served aboard USS HADDO (SS-255) during World War II sent out his second-to-last “ ‘Happy Haddo’ Reunion Newsletter.” In it he included a section called REMEMBER? What follows is a list of just [...]

The two men most closely associated with Turtle, the first submarine ever to be used in combat, are David Bushnell, her designer and builder, and Ezra Lee, her operator on the night of the famous attack, described in yesterday’s “Tidbit.” [...]

In the dead of night on 7 September 1776, 238 years ago this Sunday, a strange semi-submerged vessel made its way out into New York Harbor. The mission of the tiny American submersible, named Turtle: send the massive 64-gun British [...]

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 [...]