OCEAN SPRING, Mississippi - The United States Submarine Veterans Inc. Tullibee Base of Mississippi will conduct its fourth annual memorial service for the USS Tullibee SS 284 at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 24.
The service will be held at the Mississippi Submarine Memorial in the Mississippi Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park on U.S. 90 in Ocean Springs.
It will consist of tolling the bell for each of the crew members lost on the USS Tullibee SS 284 during World War II, followed by tolling the bell for each of the Tullibee Base Members lost since the base was charted.
In January 1960, each Submarine Veterans of WWII State Commander was requested to select one of the 52 boats lost in WWII. Once this was accomplished, it was then the responsibility of the state chapter to hold memorial services on the date that the boat was lost, If none were chosen, a "Lost Boat" would be assigned to those states that failed to choose one of their own.
As there was no Chapter of Submarine Veterans of WWII in Mississippi at the time, the USS Tullibee was assigned to the state of Mississippi. A circular run torpedo sank the Tullibee during a night surface attack on March 26, 1944. There was one survivor, Clifford Kuykendall, GM2 (SS) who spent the remainder of the war in a Japanese POW camp.
On August 25, 2001, the USSVI Tullibee Base of Mississippi was chartered. On March 28, 2009, the first memorial service for the crew of the Tullibee was conducted. Cliff Kuykendall, the sole survivor of the Tullibee sinking, was in attendance to honor his lost shipmates.
All local submarine veterans and interested personnel are invited to join Tullibee Base for the remembrance of these lost shipmates, said member Herb Edmonds.
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