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The first Stingray (Submarine No. 13), was a C-class submarine in commission from 1909 to 1919 that was renamed USS C-2 in 1911 and served during World War I. The second USS Stingray (SS-186) was a Salmon-class submarine in commission from 1938 to 1945 that served during World War II.
Stingray then fired four more torpedoes at the damaged cargo ship that quickly sent Ikushima Maru to the bottom. On the afternoon of 8 April, while patrolling north of the Marianas, Stingray bounced off a large submerged object at a depth of 52 feet (16 m), lifting the submarine three or four feet (0.91 or 1.22 m). Inasmuch as the submarine was ...
[6] [7] This yields 10 cancelled Balao-class, SS-353-360 and 379-380. The Register of Ships of the U. S. Navy differs, considering every submarine not specifically ordered as a Tench to be a Balao, and further projecting SS-551-562 as a future class. [1] This yields 62 cancelled Balao class, 51 cancelled Tench class, and 12 cancelled SS-551 ...
Initially assigned to experimental Submarine Division (SubDiv) Zero, then to SubDiv 4, S-50 was based at New London, Connecticut, and, until mid-June, conducted trials in the Block Island area.
The 1-161 FA has its roots as the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Kansas Volunteer Militia, which was organized from existing units in 1880. The regiment was mustered into federal service in June 1916 for duty guarding the Mexican border while Regular Army units pursued revolutionary leader Francisco "Pancho" Villa .
USS Pampanito (SS-383/AGSS-383), a Balao-class submarine, is a United States Navy ship, the third named for the pompano fish. She completed six war patrols from 1944 to 1945 and served as a United States Naval Reserve training ship from 1960 to 1971.
The first boat in name sequence, USS S-1 (SS-105), was commissioned in 1920 and the last numerically, USS S-51 (SS-162), in 1922. Severe production difficulties encountered by one of the contractors threw the production sequence into disarray and the last of the class actually commissioned was USS S-47 (SS-158) in September, 1925. The S class ...
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