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USS Grayback (SS-208), a Tambor-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the lake herring, Coregonus artedi. She ranked 20th among all U.S. submarines in total tonnage sunk during World War II , with 63,835 tons, and 24th in number of ships sunk, with 14.
Grayback′s keel was laid down on 1 July 1954 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard of Vallejo, California.She was launched on 2 July 1957, sponsored by Mrs. John A. Moore, widow of the last commanding officer of the previous USS Grayback (SS-208), and commissioned at Mare Island on 7 March 1958.
USS Robalo: 26 July 1944 Presumed to have struck a Japanese mine near Palawan Island: May 2019 USS Stickleback: 29 May 1958 Sank after collision with USS Silverstein during training near Hawaii: August 2019 USS Grayback: 27 February 1944 Sunk by aerial bomb from Japanese B5N torpedo bomber in the East China Sea: 10 November 2019 USS S-35: 4 ...
USS Admiral W. L. Capps; USS Agerholm; HMAS Air Sprite; Japanese battleship Aki; USS Alfred A. Cunningham; ARA Almirante Domecq Garcia (D23) Chilean icebreaker Almirante Óscar Viel; French submarine Alose (1904) JDS Amatsukaze; USS America (CV-66) USAS American Mariner; French destroyer Amiral Sénès; USS Anderson; HMS Andromeda (F57) USS ...
In 1942–43, four Tambors: SS-198, SS-199, SS-200 (which was the first one to be so modified, with USS Bonita's gun), SS-203, and two Gars: SS-206, SS-209, were rearmed with the 5-inch/51 guns. All pieces were taken from the Barracuda class or spares for that class, as they were the only class with a submarine "wet mount" for that gun. [ 14 ]
The Grayback-class submarine was a class of two guided missile-carrying submarines of the United States Navy. They carried the Regulus I and Regulus II nuclear cruise missiles , deployed 1957–64, that were rapidly phased out by Polaris Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles ( SLBMs ).
USS Grayback may refer to the following vessels of the United States Navy: USS Grayback (SS-208) , a Tambor -class submarine , commissioned in 1941 and sunk in 1944 USS Grayback (SSG-574) , a Grayback -class submarine, commissioned in 1958 and stricken in 1984
USS Higbee United States Navy The decommissioned Gearing -class destroyer was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean about 130 nautical miles (240 km) west of San Diego , California , at 32°28′0.4″N 119°58′0.7″W / 32.466778°N 119.966861°W / 32.466778; -119.966861 ( "USS Higbee (