September 1st-8th - On This Date - US Navy Submarines

For the month September in history ..

09/01/1906 - USS B-2 Cuttlefish (SS 11) is launched

09/01/1920 - USS S-5 (SS-110) Experiences massive flooding via the main induction and sinks in 175 feet of water off the Delaware Coast. Crew manages to raise stern of the 231 foot long boat to a point where the tiller room in the stern is above surface. In a superhuman effort over 30 hours, they drill and cut a small hole in the pressure hull, summon a passing freighter who aids in cutting a larger hole. All 40 men escape.

09/01/1920 - USS S-5 (SS 110) is decommissioned

09/01/1942 - USS Tunny (SS 282) is commissioned

09/01/1942 - USS Pompano (SS-181) with the loss of 76 shipmates

09/01/1943 - USS Pompano (SS 181) is decommissioned

09/01/1944 - USS Devilfish (SS 292) is commissioned

09/01/1948 - USS Tiru (SS 416) is commissioned

09/01/1957 - USS Nautilus (SSN-571) Hits ice with periscopes while attempting under ice operations in Arctic

09/01/1962 - USS Aspro (SS 309) is decommissioned for the second time

09/01/1972 - USS Batfish (SSN 681) is commissioned

09/01/1985 - USS Nathaniel Greene (SSBN-636) Aground in Irish Sea

09/01/1994 - USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN 624) is decommissioned

09/02/1917 - USS C-1 (SS 9) Collides with USS C-4 (SS 15) at Colon, CZ

09/02/1917 - USS N-4 (SS-56) Grounded near buoy S-7 off Laurence Point near New York Navy Yard

09/02/1941 - Keel is laid for the USS Gurnard (SS 254) 2-Sep-1941

09/02/1945 - Surrender documents ending hostilites in the Pacific War are signed in Tokyo Bay. Present at the ceremony is the tender Proteus and the submarines Archerfish, Cavalla, Gato, Haddo, Hake, Muskalung, Pilotfish, Razorback, Runner, Segundo, Seacat and Tigrone. U. S. submarines have sunk 5 million tons of Japanese naval and merchant shipping at a loss of 52 U. S. submarines and more than 3,500 valiant men.

09/03/1913 - USS K-1 (SS 32) is launched

09/03/1919 - USS R-27 (SS 104) is commissioned

09/03/1942 - Keel is laid for the USS Redfin (SS 272)

09/03/1952 - USS Cavalla (SS 244) is decommissioned for the second time

09/04/1935 - USS Tarpon (SS 175) is launched

09/04/1940 - USS Grayling (SS 209) is launched

09/04/1943 - USS Archerfish (SS 311) is commissioned

09/04/1943 - Keel is laid for the USS Icefish

09/04/1962 - Keel is laid for the USS Von Steuben

09/04/1979 - Keel is laid for the USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705)

09/05/1905 - Keel is laid for the USS B-1 (SS 10)

09/05/1905 - Keel is laid for the USS B-3 (SS 12)

09/05/1919 - USS R-11 (SS 88) is commissioned

09/05/1919 - USS G-4 (SS 26) is decommissioned

09/05/1936 - USS Pollack (SS 180) is launched

09/05/1945 - USS R-11 (SS 88) is decommissioned

09/06/1919 - USS T-2 AA-2 (SS 60) is launched

09/06/1944 - USS Torsk (SS 423) is launched

09/06/1997 - USS Louisiana (SSBN 743) is commissioned

09/07/1776 - Turtle, a one-man submarine built by 34-year old Yale graduate David Bushnell, unsuccessfully tries to attach a torpedo to the hull of the HMS Eagle anchored off New York Harbor

09/07/1937 - Keel is laid for the USS Sculpin (SS 191)

09/07/1943 - USS Darter (SS 227) is commissioned

09/07/1955 - USS Sailfish (SS 572) is launched

09/07/1955 - USS X-1 ( SSX1) is launched

09/07/1963 - USS Sandlance (SS 381) is decommissioned for the second time

09/07/1963 - USS Plaice (SS 390) is decommissioned for the second time

09/07/1993 - USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN 657) is decommissioned

09/08/1910 - USS D-3 (SS 19) is commissioned

09/08/1944 - USS Kraken (SS 370) is commissioned

09/08/1947 - USS Torsk (SS-423) Collides with USS Johnston (DD-821)

09/08/1947 - USS Atule (SS 403) is decommissioned