Boat History

21 August 1964 – USS Daniel Boone (SSBN 629) on this date became the first SSBN permanently assigned to the Pacific Fleet. Eventually the two crews would spend “Off Crew” in Hawaii, flying back and forth to Guam where the Daniel Boone was stationed. © Gregg Smith

14-15 August 1942 – S-39 (SS 144) While on Patrol in the Coral Sea the SS 144 ran aground in heavy seas off Rossel Island. The 21 by 10 mile volcanic island it lies at the end of the Louisiade Archipelago, about 230 miles Southeast of New

9 August 1944 – While on her 6th war patrol the USS Bowfin (SS\AGSS 287) spotted four freighters near the harbor for  Minami Daito. Launching a torpedo for each target two were hit and sunk and a third was damaged. The fourth ‘stray’ torpedo hit a pier,

31 July 1944 Lawson Ramage, Commanding Officer of the USS Parche SS 384, penetrated the screen of a Japanese Convoy and initiated a surface action by crippling a freighter. He then redirected action against the two lead tankers sinking one and damaging the second. Ramage calmly ordered

25 July 1945 USS Toro (SS 422), while on lifeguard duty, rescued three British aviators afloat on a raft. Two days later a U.S. Army Air Corps Flier in a crippled P-51 Mustang circled Toro and was rescued after parachuting out. Within the next several days she

JULY 1 July 1975 The end of an Era.  USS Tiru (SS 416) named for the “Tiru” a member of the Lizardfish family, was the last of the World War Two design of the Balao class and subsequently was the last submarine of that World War II

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13 June On this Date in 1944 USS Barb (SS 220) sank Japanese army transport Takashima Maru in the Sea of Okhotsk and then survived counter-attacks by the Japanese destroyer Hatsuharu. During her seven war patrols in the Pacific (6 War patrols were in the European Theater)

On June 3, 1958, the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine, visits Everett and Seattle. In Seattle, crewmen dressed in civilian clothing secretly buy 140 quarts of the automotive product Bar’s Leaks (originally identified as Stop Leak — see comment in Sources below) to repair a leaking

21 May 2002 USS Dolphin (AGSS 555) While conducting a battery charge 100 miles Southwest of San Diego, Dophon encountered 30 mile per hour winds and seas over ten feet. Normally this might pose no problem. Dolphin was built with a cylindrical uniform diameter hull with minimal