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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.
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 ...
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.
That same year, local submarine veterans, many of whom had returned to Manitowoc after serving on Manitowoc boats, formed the Manitowoc Chapter of U.S. Submarine Veterans of WWII.
After almost a month in port at Brisbane, Scamp stood out on her fourth war patrol. She again patrolled off the Solomon Islands and into the Bismarck Sea. On 18 September 1943, she attacked a Japanese three-ship convoy and crippled the 8,614-gross register ton passenger-cargo ship Kansai Maru. Another ship changed course and avoided her torpedoes.