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Dolphin was the penultimate design in the V-boat series. With a length of 319 ft (97 m) and a displacement only a little more than half that of the previous three large cruiser submarines (1,718 long tons (1,746 t) surfaced, 2,240 long tons (2,276 t) submerged), Dolphin was clearly an attempt to strike a medium between those latter submarines and earlier S-class submarines, which were little ...
A:Oil storage tanks B:CINCPAC headquarters building C:Submarine base D:Navy Yard List of United States Navy ships present at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 , including commissioned warships and service auxiliaries, but not yard craft assigned to the Fourteenth Naval District.
Raised, repaired and re-commissioned as USS Sailfish on 15 May 1940. Sank Japanese aircraft carrier Chūyō 3 Dec 1943 which was carrying survivors of Sculpin (SS-191). SS-193 Swordfish: Sunk by Japanese ships 12 Jan 1945. SS-194 Seadragon: SS-195 Sealion: Destroyed by Japanese aircraft 10 Dec 1941. First US submarine lost in World War II. SS ...
USS Grayback (SS-208) 30 June 1941: Mackerel: 2: USS Mackerel (SS-204) 6 October 1939: USS Marlin (SS-205) 1 August 1941: Gato: 77: USS Drum (SS-228) 11 September 1940: USS Croaker (SS-246) 21 April 1944: USS Drum was only boat actually commissioned before US Entry to WWII
USS Dolphin: United States California: San Diego: United States: 1968 Dolphin class: Submarine: Maritime Museum of San Diego [21] USS Drum: United States Alabama: Mobile: United States: 1941 Gato class: Submarine: USS Alabama Battleship Commission [22] USS Edson: United States Michigan: Bay City: United States: 1958 Forrest Sherman class ...
In October 1941 most of the front-line submarine force, including all sixteen Salmon and Sargo class boats, joined them. The Japanese occupation of southern Indo-China and the August 1941 American-British-Dutch retaliatory oil embargo had raised international tensions, and an increased military presence in the Philippines was felt necessary. [20]
USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) was a United States Navy diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. She was commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007. Her 38-year career was the longest in history for a US Navy submarine to that point. She was the Navy's last operational conventionally powered submarine. [2]
USS Dolphin (PG-24), a gunboat and dispatch vessel intermittently in and out of commission from 1885 to 1921; USS Dolphin (SP-318), a fishing vessel examined for potential naval use in 1917 but apparently never taken over by the Navy; USS Dolphin (SP-874), a patrol vessel in commission during 1918; USS Dolphin (SS-169), a submarine in ...