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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 ...
USS Drum (SSN-677), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the drum, also known as the croaker or hardhead, any of various fishes of the Sciaenidae family, capable of making a drumming noise and best known on the Atlantic coast of North America.
Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-217-X. Fluckey, Eugene B. (1992). Thunder Below: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-01925-3. Friedman, Norman (1995). U.S. Submarines Through 1945: An Illustrated Design History.
Seventy-seven Gato-class submarines were built during World War II, commissioned from November 1941 through April 1944. [1] The class was very successful in sinking Japanese merchant ships and naval vessels: the top three US submarines in tonnage sunk were Gatos, along with three of the top seven in number of ships sunk. [2]
Museum ship in Cleveland, Ohio 's North Coast Harbor at the USS Cod Submarine Memorial since 1 May 1976. SS-225 Cero: SS-226 Corvina: Sunk by Japanese submarine 16 Nov 1943. SS-227 Darter: Grounded on 24 Oct 1944. Destroyed to prevent capture. SS-228 Drum: Museum ship in Mobile, AL. SS-229 Flying Fish: SS-230 Finback: SS-231 Haddock: SS-232 ...
Ocean Exploration Trust’s E/V Nautilus crew recently shared visuals it captured during its exploration of the USS Bugara, a sunken submarine used in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam ...
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.
The new USS New Jersey is prepared to continue the legacy of the ships with the same name that preceded it, being now the most complex warfare machine ever built in the U.S. said the vessel's ...