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World War II Class name No. First ship laid down Last ship commissioned Notes Balao: 120: USS Devilfish (SS-292) 31 March 1942: USS Tiru (SS-416) 1 September 1948: 62 cancelled Tench: 29: USS Amberjack (SS-522), USS Grampus (SS-523), USS Pickerel (SS-524), and USS Grenadier (SS-525) 8 February 1944: USS Grenadier (SS-525) 10 February 1951: 51 ...
Balao-class submarine; Gato-class submarine; Mackerel-class submarine; United States O-class submarine; United States Porpoise-class submarine; United States R-class submarine; Salmon-class submarine; Sargo-class submarine; Tambor-class submarine; Tench-class submarine *
The Gato class of submarines were built for the United States Navy and launched in 1941–1943. Named after the lead ship of the class, USS Gato, they were the first mass-production U.S. submarine class of World War II.
List of Los Angeles class submarines; List of submarines of World War II; List of United States Navy ships; List of United States Navy losses in World War II § Submarines (SS) - abbreviated list; List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II § Submarine (SS) - detailed list; The NR-1 Deep Submergence Craft was a non ...
In World War II, the United States Navy used submarines heavily. Overall, 263 US submarines undertook war patrols, [2] claiming 1,392 ships and 5,583,400 tons during the war. [3] [a] Submarines in the United States Navy were responsible for sinking 540,192 tons or 30% of the Japanese navy and 4,779,902 tons of shipping, or 54.6% of all Japanese shipping in the Pacific Theater.
This is a list of submarines of World War II, which began with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 and ended with the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. Germany used submarines to devastating effect in the Battle of the Atlantic , where it attempted to cut Britain's supply routes by sinking more merchant ships than Britain ...
The Balao class was a design of United States Navy submarine used during World War II, and with 120 [1] boats completed, the largest class of submarines in the United States Navy. An improvement on the earlier Gato class , the boats had slight internal differences.
Seventy-seven Gato-class submarines were built during World War II, commissioned from November 1941 through April 1944. [1] The class was very successful in sinking Japanese merchant ships and naval vessels: the top three US submarines in tonnage sunk were Gatos, along with three of the top seven in number of ships sunk. [2]