Submarine History

As detailed in last Friday’s “Tidbit,” USS BULLHEAD (SS-332) was the last U.S. submarine to be lost in World War II, succumbing during her third war patrol on the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. But, wrote Robert [...]

On 31 July 1945, USS BULLHEAD (SS-332) left Fremantle, Australia on her third war patrol, her crew probably hoping for a bit more action than they had experienced previously. On the first they had pulled lifeguard duty, rescuing three airmen, [...]

In the mid-1940s, Literary Classics, Inc. published a three-volume set of books titled This is Your America. The work was a compendium of dozens of short non-fiction pieces about a wide range of topics. One, found in Volume III, came [...]

In the mid-1940s, Literary Classics, Inc. published a three-volume set of books titled This is Your America. The work was a compendium of dozens of short non-fiction pieces about a wide range of topics. One, found in Volume III, came [...]

In the mid-1940s, Literary Classics, Inc. published a three-volume set of books titled This is Your America. The work was a compendium of dozens of short non-fiction pieces about a wide range of topics. One, found in Volume III, came [...]

If you’ve visited the Submarine Force Museum, you probably noticed the model wall that runs the length of our main hallway. It displays scale models of each class of American submarine from 1900 to the present, along with a list [...]

At 11:15 PM (EDT) on 3 August 1958, USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571) became the first vessel of any kind to reach the geographic North Pole. The boat’s navigator, Lieutenant Shep Jenks, filled out a special ship’s position form for the occasion—then [...]

In the midst of the fourth war patrol of USS APOGON (SS-308), on 12 July 1944, her crew discovered that enemy vessels didn’t have to employ explosives in order to cause serious damage. […]

On 11 April 1942, USS GRUNION (SS-216) was commissioned at Electric Boat Company in Groton, CT. It would have been difficult to imagine on that day of new beginnings that the new sub had less than four months to live. [...]

On 12 April 1942, the German U-boat U-558 stood out from Brest, France, to begin her seventh war patrol. Exactly one month later, her reign of terror began when she sank the British armed trawler HMT Bedfordshire, which was assisting [...]