USS Croaker (SS/SSK/AGSS/IXSS-246), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the croaker, any of various fishes which make croaking noises.
Her keel was laid down on 19 December 1943 by Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 19 December 1943 (sponsored by Mrs. W. H. P. Blandy), and commissioned on 21 April 1944, Commander J. E. Lee in command.
Croaker arrived at Pearl Harbor f...
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USS Croaker (SS/SSK/AGSS/IXSS-246), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the croaker, any of various fishes which make croaking noises.
Her keel was laid down on 19 December 1943 by Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 19 December 1943 (sponsored by Mrs. W. H. P. Blandy), and commissioned on 21 April 1944, Commander J. E. Lee in command.
Croaker arrived at Pearl Harbor from New London on 26 June 1944, and on 19 July put to sea on her first war patrol, sailing to the East China and Yellow Seas. In a series of brilliantly successful attacks which won her the Navy Unit Commendation, she sank the cruiser Nagara on 7 August, and two freighters, one on 14 August and one on 17 August. During this patrol, she served as lifeguard during air strikes on the Bonin Islands. She refitted at Midway Atoll from 31 August-23 September, when she sailed in a coordinated attack group for the same area on her second war patrol....
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