USS Redfish (SS-395)

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USS Redfish (SS-395)
USS Redfish (SS-395)
Overview
Keel laying September 9, 1943
Launch January 27, 1944
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning April 12, 1944
Decommissioning June 27, 1968
Whereabouts sunk as a target ship
Technical specifications
displacement

1526  ts surfaced
2424 ts surfaced
length

95.0 meters

width

8.3 meters

Draft

4.6 meters

Diving depth 120 meters
crew

6 officers, 60 NCOs and men

drive

4 × 1350 PS diesel engines
4 × electric motors
(total 2740 PS)

speed

Surfaced 20.25 knots surfaced
8.75 knots

Range

11,000  nautical miles at 10 knots

The USS Redfish (SS / AGSS-395) was a submarine of the Balao-class submarine and the first ship of the US Navy , which after the redfish was named. She served in the US Navy from April 1944 to June 1968.

history

Construction and commissioning

The keel of the Redfish was laid on September 9, 1943 at the Portsmouth naval shipyard in Kittery , Maine . She was baptized by Miss Ruth Roper on January 27, 1944, and then launched. The USS Redfish entered service on April 12, 1944 under the command of Commander Louis D. McGregor.

Second World War

The Redfish reached Pearl Harbor on June 27, 1944 . On July 23, the boat left Hawaii for its first voyage, on which it sank the Japanese 5953-ton cargo ship Batopaha Maru on August 25, the 7,311 -ton tanker Ogura Maru Zwei on September 16 and the one on September 21 8506-ton transport ship Mizuho Maru . On October 2nd, the Redfish reached the Midway Islands . On October 25, the boat left Midway and reached Saipan on November 3 , where it sank the Japanese 2345-ton transporter Hozan Maru on the night of November 22 to November 23. The Redfish ran from Saipan on December 1, together with the USS Sea Devil , damaged the Japanese aircraft carrier Junyō on the night of December 8th to December 9th and put the carrier out of action for the remainder of the war.

On December 19, 1944, the Redfish sank the newly built Japanese 18,500-ton aircraft carrier Unryū , which was en route to Mindoro . After the hit, she dived to a depth of 71 m, then the Redfish rose to the surface to avoid the Japanese escort ships at top speed. On February 17, 1945, the boat reached the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for repairs. After completing the work, she returned to Pearl Harbor on July 23, and stayed there until the end of the war.

The Redfish received a Presidential Unit Citation for its two war patrols.

Post war and film career

After serving in Guam from September 1945 to January 1946, the Redfish reached San Diego , California on January 30, 1946 . She left California on March 3, 1947 for Guam and Japan, then returned to San Diego on June 21, 1946. After operations off the west coast and Hawaii, the Redfish sailed for Korea on February 2, 1951 and ran from Yokosuka, Japan, to support the United Nations armed forces on June 24. The return to San Diego took place on July 3, then the boat operated off the US west coast.

Equipped with a dummy tail fin, Redfish played the role of Jules Verne's Nautilus in the Walt Disney film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in the spring of 1954 , where the aft deck of the Nautilus was recreated on the deck of the Redfish . In September 1957, after deck and armament modifications, she played the fictional submarine USS Nerka in the 1958 film U 23 - Tödliche Tiefen (original title: Run Silent, Run Deep ). The Redfish ended her film career with several appearances on the black and white television series The Silent Service .

During the West Pacific mission from March 26 to September 26, 1960 from San Diego, California, the Redfish was reclassified to the training submarine (AGSS-395) on July 1, 1960. From 1960 to 1968, the submarine undertook annual training trips to the Western Pacific. On June 27, 1968, the Redfish was decommissioned in San Diego, deleted on June 30 from the Naval Vessel Register and later sunk as a target ship by the USS Medregal .

The Redfish received two battlestars for service in World War II.

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