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USS Drum (SS-228) is a Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship named after the drum, a type of fish. Drum is a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama, at Battleship Memorial Park. Drum was the twelfth of the Gato class but was the first completed and the first to enter combat in World War II. She is the oldest of her class ...
SS-227 20 Oct 1942 6 Jun 1943 7 Sep 1943 Lost to accidental grounding, 24 Oct 1944 [1] [10] Drum SS-228 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine: 11 Sep 1940 12 May 1941 1 Nov 1941 16 Feb 1946 PT 1947-1968, AGSS 1 Dec 1962; struck 30 Jun 1968, memorial in Mobile, Alabama [10] [17] 18 Mar 1947 30 Jun 1968 Flying Fish SS-229 6 Dec 1940
USS Seawolf (SS-197) 1 December 1939: Tambor: 12: USS Tambor (SS-198) 16 January 1939: 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 ...
The World War II-era battleship USS Alabama (BB-60). The World War II era submarine USS Drum (SS-228). Bombers and fighter planes ranging from a B-52 from the Vietnam War, a P-51 Mustang flown by the Tuskegee Airmen to an Lockheed A-12 spyplane. A PBR (River Patrol Boat) used in the Vietnam War.
Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Drum, after the fish known as drums. USS Drum (SS-228) was a Gato-class submarine, commissioned November 1941 and active throughout World War II. USS Drum (SSN-677) was a Sturgeon-class nuclear submarine in service from 1972 to 1995.
She was the first combat submarine to sink a warship (USS ... (BB-60) and the USS Drum (SS-228). Crew. H.L. Hunley Memorial Marker at Magnolia Cemetery ...
Beginning submarine training in 1940, he joined the crew of USS Drum (SS-228) in time for World War II. Rindskopf served on board Drum for eleven patrols and was awarded a Silver Star as a junior officer for torpedo and gunnery excellence. As a junior officer, he would often take the night watch and decode messages advising of targets.
In World War II, the United States Navy used submarines heavily. Overall, 263 US submarines undertook war patrols, [2] claiming 1,392 ships and 5,583,400 tons during the war. [3] [a] Submarines in the United States Navy were responsible for sinking 540,192 tons or 30% of the Japanese navy and 4,779,902 tons of shipping, or 54.6% of all Japanese shipping in the Pacific Theater.