Boat History

25 April 2026 USS Idaho Commissioned – also on this day in 1960 The USS Triton (SSRN 586) Under the command of Edward L. Beach completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the world. Sailing with the code nameOperation Sandblast, the United States Navy nuclear-powered radar picket submarine

James Robert Ball SN – April 18, 1944 – USS Gudgeon (SS-211) Departed Pearl on her 12th War patrol on  April 4, 1944, topped off fuel at Johnston Island on April 7th and proceeded to her patrol area. Gudgeon was never heard from again. Japanese records obtained

Sidney Lynn Middleton MM1 – April 10, 1963 – USS Thresher (SSN-593) Approximately 300 miles off the coast of New England. Most likely cause of the sinking was a failure of a silver-brazed pipe allowing sea water to spray onto a panel. The resulting short circuit resulted

Delmer Lemar Crawford GM1 – April 9, 1945 – USS Snook (SS-279)  Snook arrived on station in the South China Sea on her ninth War Patrol on 8 April 1945 and reported her position to the submarine Tigrone (SS 419). The next day she did not acknowledge

Beryl Glyde Osborn CS3-  April 3, 1943 – USS Pickerel (SS-177) Off Honshu, Japan.  Pickerel left Pearl and subsequently topped off for fuel at Midway on 22 March ’43 and then headed for the assigned patrol area. Pickerel was never heard from again. No clear cause of

March 26, 1944 – USS Tullibee (SS-284) On March 14th Tullibee departed Midway, bound for its patrol area of the Palau Islands with orders to support aircraft carrier operations on March 30 to 31st. Tullibee arrived on station on March 25th and reported in. The next day

On March 17, 1898, St. Patrick’s Day, Irish-born engineer John Philip Holland demonstrated a submarine he designed, the Holland VI, for the U.S. Navy Department, off the coast of Staten Island. (The green in the pic is pure coincidence. Right? ) During the demonstration, the vessel was

John Holbrook Eichmann LT (XO) and Frederic Howard Christy CS2 – March 15, 1943 – USS Triton (SS-201) Triton began her sixth and last War Patrol on February 16, 1943 near Rabaul. On 11 March Triton Reported she was chasing two convoys. On dates previous to that

25 March  1915 SS 23  (F4) aka ‘Skate’ Tragedy struck the Submarine Service for the first time on this date in 1915. Off the Coast of Oahu, Submarine F-4 (SS 23) exploded and sank outside of Pearl Harbor.  Twenty-One of the crew perished, the sole crew member

Leroy Eugene Chandler SN – February 27, 1935 – USS Bonita (SS-165) Died of injuries after falling to floor of drydock in Navy Yard, Mare Island, California. He was 24 years old and was buried in the San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, California – his remains