January 14th - On This Date - US Navy Submarine Service

1903 -

PCU PIKE (later A-5) (SS-6) launched at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA; sponsored by Mrs. Frank Baker Zahm, the wife of the naval constructor at Union Iron Works.

1921 - 

PCU S-44 (SS-155) keel laid as S-44 at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, MA.

1936 - 

PCU POMPANO (SS-181) keel laid as POMPANO at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.

1945 -

PCU CHIVO (SS-341) launched at the Electric Boat Company, Groton, CT; sponsored by Mrs. R. E. Baldwin, wife of the governor of Connecticut.

1955 - 

USS TENCH (SS-417) ran aground off Cape Henry Lighthouse, VA.

1957 - 

Ex-PIKE (SS-173) sold for scrapping to A. G. Schoonmaker Company, New York, NY.