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Submarine Squadron 4 ( SUBRON 4, also known as CSS-4) is a US Navy unit of submarines. Raised by the United States Navy in 1930, since 9 July 1997, the squadron has been based at the Naval Submarine Base New London , Groton, Connecticut , United States of America .
A submarine squadron (SUBRON) is a naval formation or unit in such states such as the United Kingdom, United States, and Russia/Soviet Union. In France the equivalent unit is the escadrille des sous-marins nucléaires d'attaque (ESNA), part of the French submarine forces (and before the Second World War, escadrilles de sous-marins).
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USS CLAMAGORE (SS343) Flagship of SUBRON 4, Key West, FL, January, 1946. Carried the Squadron Flag until 1 August 1959. USS SEAPOACHER (SS406), 1 June 1949, was transferred to SUBRON 4 Key West, Florida until 20 October 1969. USS THORNBACK (SS418), On 2 October 1953, the submarine was recommissioned and assigned to SUBRON 4.
1.2.4 Submarine Squadron 15 (SUBRON-15) (NB Guam, Guam) 2 United States Fleet Forces Command (NSA Hampton Roads, VA) Toggle United States Fleet Forces Command (NSA Hampton Roads, VA) subsection
During the remainder of 1934, she operated with Submarine Squadron 4 (SubRon 4), towing targets and retrieving torpedoes; she provided similar services for SubRon 9 the following year. Duty with submarines continued until January 1938, when she commenced towing operations with the Pacific Fleet, participating in joint Army-Navy maneuvers off ...
On 6 January 1946, she sailed for Key West, Florida, where she joined Submarine Squadron 4 (SubRon 4). August through November of that year was spent at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine , being converted to a radar picket submarine under project MIGRAINE.
As the formal surrender documents were being signed in Tokyo Bay, Orion was en route to the United States. Assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, she operated off the east coast for four months, then sailed south to Balboa, C. Z. Taking up duties with SubRon 6, 24 January 1946, she remained in the Panama Canal Zone, with one interruption for overhaul, until 11 May 1949.