After evading an ensuing depth charge attack, the submarine continued her patrol. Although all missed the original target, the torpedoes continued on to hit and sink another enemy vessel, the 4,700-ton cargo ship, Chiyo Maru. Early on the morning of 2 June, Shark submerged ahead of an enemy convoy and fired a spread of torpedoes at a Japanese tanker. Her first war patrol commenced on and was conducted in waters west of the Mariana Islands as part of a coordinated attack group with submarines USS Pintado and USS Pilotfish. Lera Millard Thomas, the wife of Albert Thomas, the United States Congressman from the Eighth District of Texas), and commissioned on 14 February 1944 with Commander Edward Noe Blakely in command.įollowing shakedown off New London, Connecticut, Shark transited the Panama Canal and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 24 April 1944 for final training in the Hawaiian area. She was launched on 17 October 1943 (sponsored by Mrs. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut, on 28 January 1943. The sinking of Arisan Maru is the greatest loss of American life in a single military sinking. The Americans had no way of recognizing Arisan Maru was a prison ship. Arisan Maru was transporting captured Americans but carried no markings or flag indicating this. In the engagement in which it was sunk, Shark torpedoed and sank the Japanese freighter Arisan Maru. Shark was sunk on its third patrol by a Japanese destroyer on 24 October 1944. Following shakedown, Shark was deployed to the Pacific where she attacked ships and rescued downed airmen. USS Shark (SS-314), a Balao-class submarine, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the shark, a large marine predator.Ĭonstruction began in 1943 and commissioning occurred in 1944. 48 hours at 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged.4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears ġ1,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h).4 × General Motors Model 16-278A V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators.Sunk by Harukaze off Taiwan, 24 October 1944 - all 87 people on board died. USS Shark being launched at Electric Boat CompanyĮlectric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
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