Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Swordfish after the swordfish, a large fish with a long, swordlike beak and a high dorsal fin.
USS Swordfish (SS-193), a Sargo-class submarine commissioned in 1939 and sunk in 1945, was the first United States submarine to sink a Japanese ship during World War II.
USS Swordfish (SSN-579), a Skate-class submarine in commission from 1958 to 1989, is accused by Russia of ramming and sinking the Soviet submarine K-129 during the Cold War (see Project Jennifer).
USS Swordfish (SS-193), a Sargo-class submarine, was the first submarine of the United States Navy named for the swordfish, a large fish with a long, swordlike beak and a high dorsal fin. She was the first American submarine to sink a Japanese ship during World War II.
USS Swordfish (SSN-579), a Skate-class nuclear-powered submarine, was the second submarine of the United States Navy named for the swordfish, a large fish with a long, swordlike beak and a high dorsal fin.
13 Jan 2014 · SWORDFISH, the recipient of eight battle stars for her wartime service, took 89 men to the bottom with her. SWORDFISH on the day of her launching, 1 April 1939. This is the earliest known color Official Navy Photograph that can be precisely dated.
07 Jun 2022 · USS Swordfish (SS-193) was commissioned on 22 July 1939, and after shakedown and subsequent repairs, was underway to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in early 1941. On 3 November, Swordfish departed Pearl...
USS Swordfish (SS-193), a Sargo -class submarine commissioned in 1939 and sunk in 1945, was the first United States submarine to sink a Japanese ship during World War II.
Swordfish (SS-193) earned eight battle stars for World War II service. Memorial to Swordfish (SS-193) at St. Paul, Minnesota, January 1967. It features a torpedo and has plaques on either...
SWORDFISH, in the twelve patrols before her fatal thirteenth, sank twenty-on ships, amounting to 113,100 tons, and damaged an additional eight, totaling 45,800 tons. Her first patrol began the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was conducted west of the Philippines.
04 Sep 2020 · During January 1944, U.S. Navy submarine USS Swordfish was on its tenth war patrol, searching the sea lanes outside of Tokyo Bay, Japan. The skipper was Capt. Carl G. Hensel, which was unusual...
USS Swordfish (SS-193), a Sargo-class submarine launched on April 3, 1939. Following shakedown and post-shakedown repairs at Mare Island, Swordfish operated out of San Diego, California, until early 1941, when she set sail for Pearl Harbor.
After damaging several enemy vessels on the 9th, 11th, and 14th, Swordfish sank her initial victim of the war on 16 December. Hit amidships by one of three torpedoes, the cargo ship A tsutasan Maru erupted in a cloud of smoke and flames and disappeared beneath the waves.
