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USS Grayback (SS-208), a Tambor-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the lake herring, Coregonus artedi. She ranked 20th among all U.S. submarines in total tonnage sunk during World War II , with 63,835 tons, and 24th in number of ships sunk, with 14.
As more Polaris missile submarines became operational, they assumed the deterrent functions previously assigned to Grayback and her sister ships. The Regulus missile program ended in 1964 and Grayback was withdrawn from active service. She decommissioned at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, on 25 May 1964.
During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered one of the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five submariners. [3] Some 16,000 submariners served during the war, of whom 375 officers and 3,131 enlisted men were killed, resulting in a total fatality rate of around 22%. [4]
The Lost 52 Project is a private organization founded by Tim Taylor to do research on the 52 U.S. Navy submarines lost on patrol during the Second World War, performing discovery, exploration, and underwater archeology where possible. [1] [2] Found, so far: [3] [4] [5]
USS Grayback may refer to the following vessels of the United States Navy: USS Grayback (SS-208) , a Tambor -class submarine , commissioned in 1941 and sunk in 1944 USS Grayback (SSG-574) , a Grayback -class submarine, commissioned in 1958 and stricken in 1984
Underwater dump sites off the Los Angeles coast contain World War II-era munitions including anti-submarine weapons and smoke devices, marine researchers announced Friday. A survey of the known ...
The Grayback-class submarine was a class of two guided missile-carrying submarines of the United States Navy. They carried the Regulus I and Regulus II nuclear cruise missiles , deployed 1957–64, that were rapidly phased out by Polaris Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles ( SLBMs ).
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.