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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
SS-226 21 Sep 1942 9 May 1943 6 Aug 1943 — Lost to Japanese submarine attack, 16 Nov 1943 [1] [10] Darter 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
USS Drum (SS-228) - Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile, AL; USS Growler (SSG-577) - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York, NY; USS Ling (SS-297) - New Jersey Naval ...
16 August 1944 – A U.S. Navy TBM Avenger torpedo bomber from the escort carrier USS White Plains (CVE-66) mistook the U.S. Navy submarine USS S-38 (SS-143) for a Japanese submarine about 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) ahead of the White Plains task unit while S-38 was conducting antisubmarine warfare exercises in the Pacific Ocean near ...
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Commander Robert Henry Rice (NSN: 0-61242), United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. DRUM (SS-228), on the FIRST War Patrol of that submarine during the period 17 April ...