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At the end of World War II, the U.S. Navy found itself in an awkward position. The 56 remaining Gato-class submarines, designed to fight an enemy that no longer existed, were largely obsolete, despite the fact they were only two to four years old. Such was the pace of technological development during the war that a submarine with only a 300 ...
USS Wahoo (SS-238) was a Gato-class submarine, the first United States Navy ship to be named for the wahoo. Construction started before the U.S. entered World War II, and she was commissioned after entry. Wahoo was assigned to the Pacific theatre.
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]
Five submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Wahoo, named after the fish, may refer to: USS Wahoo (SS-238), a Gato-class submarine, commanded by "Mush" Morton, which became famous during World War II; USS Wahoo (SS-516), a Tench-class submarine, was assigned the name, but was canceled before her keel was laid down
USS Gato (SS-212), December 1941. USS Gato (SS-212) was the lead ship of her class of submarine in the United States Navy. She was the first Navy ship named for the common name used for a number of species of catshark. She was commissioned only days after the declaration of war and made thirteen combat patrols during World War II. She survived ...
USS Silversides (SS/AGSS-236) is a Gato-class submarine, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the silversides. Silversides was one of the most successful submarines in the Pacific Theater of World War II , with 23 confirmed sinkings, totalling more than 90,000 long tons (91,444 t) of shipping.
Guitarro initially was ordered as a unit of the Balao class, but her builder, the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, did not receive the drawings for the Balao class from the Electric Boat Company in time to build Guitarro or the submarines USS Golet (SS-361), USS Guavina (SS-362), and USS Hammerhead (SS-364) to the new design, so they were built as Gato-class submarines.
USS Flasher (SS-249) was a Gato-class submarine which served in the Pacific during World War II. She received the Presidential Unit Citation and six battle stars , and sank 21 ships for a total of 100,231 tons of Japanese shipping, making her one of the most successful American submarines of the War.