Boat History

17 April 1943 –Coast Guard Cutter Spencer engaged German Submarine U – 175 on this date. Spencer dropped depth charges forcing the U Boat to surface. suffering extensive damage. The crew was attempting to scuttle when Lt. Ross P. Bullard and Boatswain’s Mate First C.S. “Mike” Hall boarded

11 April 1943 – USS Tunny (SS 282) began its day on the surface and sighted by a Japanese ship 40 kilometers off of Truk, in the Caroline Islands, but there was no subsequent attack. Early in the afternoon, she intercepted Japanese submarine I-9; Tunny fired three forward torpedoes, and

7 April 1979 – USS Ohio (SSBN-726), the first Trident class submarine was launched on this day in Groton, CT at General Dynamics Electric Boat. Ohio, the 17th State, had three previous ships so named and SSBN 726 was the lead ship in her class of nuclear-powered fleet

25 March 1915 – 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 to survive was one who

20 March 1961 After transiting the Panama Canal the USS Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN 600) successfully fired its first Polaris A1 missile. By 1967 the TR Would be carrying the Polaris A3. © Gregg Smith Know a Subvet in East Idaho? Please share with them Follow us on

This day in Submarine History March 6, 1953 USS Tunny The submarine Tunny (SSG-282), a recipient of two Presidential Unit Citations in World War Two, begins a new phase in its life when it’s refitted on this day to launch the Regulus surface-to-surface missile. Tunny successfully conducted

3 March 1961 – The submarine tender USS Proteus (AS 19) opens Fleet Ballistic Site One in Holy Lock Scotland (located off the Firth of Clyde). It is the first of the original three locations for Fleet Ballistic Missile refit facilities. The second and third will be

9 February 1960 USS Sargo (SSN 583) Passed under the North Pole after a transit from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Finding a thin spot in the ice 25 feet from the pole it surfaced and raised a Hawaiian flag. The next day Sargo submerged and proceeded to the

FEBRUARY 11 February 1942 SS 174 Shark  59 killed all hands lost 1   February 1943 SS 278 Scorpion 77 killed all hands lost 16 February 1943 SS 219 Amberjack 72 or 73 killed all hands lost depth charged by subchaser 26 February 1944 SS 208 Grayback 80

8 January 2005 – The USS San Francisco SSN 711, while traveling at an estimated 25 knots squarely struck an underwater “seamount’ about 350 miles South of Guam. The impact brought the boat to an abrupt halt, severely damaged the forward ballast tanks and destroyed the sonar