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The USS PAMPANITO Amateur Radio Club brings the radio room to life on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month using the callsign NJ6VT – NJVT was the boat's call sign during WWII. Ham radio operators may contact the boat on 7.260 and 14.260 MHz using voice, and on other frequencies using Morse Code.
Submarine escape trunk View inside a submarine escape trunk, looking up from below the lower hatch. An escape trunk is a small compartment on a submarine which provides a means for crew to escape from a downed submarine; it operates on a principle similar to an airlock, in that it allows the transfer of persons or objects between two areas of different pressure.
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Scheme of USS Pampanito (SS-383). The Balaos were similar to the Gatos, except they were modified to increase test depth from 300 ft (90 m) to 400 ft (120 m).In late 1941, two of the Navy's leading submarine designers, Captain Andrew McKee and Commander Armand Morgan, met to explore increasing diving depth in a redesigned Gato.
Ship Name Hull no. Builder Laid down Launched Comm./ Recomm. Decomm. Fate Balao SS-285 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine: 26 Jun 1942 27 Oct 1942 4 Feb 1943 20 Aug 1946 AGSS 1 Apr 1960; struck 1 Aug 1963, sunk as target 4 Sep 1963, conning tower preserved as memorial at US Navy Museum, Washington Navy Yard, DC [11] [12] 4 Mar 1952
List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships that have been in service to the United States Navy during the history of that service. The US Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), [1] although it does not include early vessels.
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USS Pompano has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to: USS Pompano (1906) , a supply boat in commission from 1917 to 1919 USS Pompano (SS-181) , a submarine commissioned in 1937 and lost in 1943