the loss of 70 crew when it was sunk near entrance to Kiska (Alaska) Harbor Then she moved on to her new homeportPearl Harbor, Hawaii. USS Bonefish (SS-223) was a Gato -class submarine, the first United States Navy ship to be named for the bonefish . 4-May-1945 with the loss of 88 crew when it was sunk in off Malay Coast in or USS Sculpin (SS-191) was lost on 19-Nov-1943 with loss of 83 crew when it was sunk in north end of Formosa Strait in vicinity of USS Swordfish (SS-193) was lost on or after 12-Jan-1945 with the loss of 89 crew when it was sunk near Yaku Island off Okinawa. The causes of death would not be known until a full medical report was done, Borton said. But even as damage control crews struggled to comply, there was an explosion and a fireball coursed across the compartment, blasting sailors against the wall. This list is for information, so we don't forget -- sailing aboard She resumed active service in the western Atlantic and West Indian operating areas on 5 April 1984 and remained so engaged through the end of the year. the loss of 99 crew when it was sunk while in transit from Med, West of He received minor chemical burns on his body from the diesel fuel spilled in the ocean. In July of 1951, Congress authorized construction of the worlds first nuclear powered submarine. U.S. Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR When all of these possibilities had been examined, and she had not been seen or heard from by 30 July 1945, BONEFISH was reported as presumed lost. off Block Island. On 7 May, the submarine returned to Apra Harbor, Guam, ending another successful war patrol. loss of 2 crew when it was sunk after collision with SS ABABGAREZ If you served in USS Bonefish (SS-223), Join TWS for free to reconnect with service friends. After a four-week standdown and a brief period of operations, Bonefish entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on 26 July. BONEFISHs luck had finally run out. Remarks: Ros discusses date discrepancy. . Again forced to go deep to avoid the counterattack, she failed to evaluate the damage that her torpedoes had done to the targets. in knowing where they were in this pitching, rolling. only. The sinking of the USS Eagle PE-56 was first deemed an accident . Lastly, I have never been quite as touched as I was by the general level of concern for their shipmates demonstrated by the men on the two frigates, the submarine rescue ship, and the carrier that were on scene. Avery thought maybe they got confused and got turned around in the smoke, Alice Causey, mother of Petty Officer 1st class Avery Causey, said Tuesday. She entered the Flores Sea on 28 November and, the next day, intercepted two enemy ships. WDR states 7-30-42 to 8-6-42 While operating in the vicinity of Makassar Strait on 22 January, Bonefish encountered a large sailing vessel. 18N - 137 25E; loss of 32 crew when it was sunk after collision with SS City of Rome Upon completing this mission, she headed for Australia and arrived at Fremantle on 30 May. Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR And Im proud to consider myself an honorary member of BONEFISH! between Hokkaido and Honshu. BONEFISH successfully transited Tsushima Strait, and made rendezvous with TUNNY on 16 June 1945, in position 36 40'N, 135 24'E. According to helicopter crewman Jim Chapman, the hoist was even lowered inside one of Bonefishs hatches to pry out a heavyset sailor stuck inside. After transiting Balabac Strait on 22 September, Bonefish continued on to her patrol area in the central part of the South China Sea. During the summer of 1963, she made a two-month cruise to the western Pacific, returning to Pearl Harbor in August. Remarks: WDR date spread is 1-5-44 to 2-24-44 Photos HERE : R-85 Kriegsmarine The Type R-41 minesweeper was sunk in a collision at Altenbruch. The submarine ended that cruise at San Diego on 14 July 1981. Water <700' deep near island; ( 27 00 N; 128 40 E). First, Admiral Dan Cooper as SUBLANT had sent me with the authority to do whatever was necessary to save the submarine and he was there to buffer me from the rest of the world I had only to make reports to him in the interim. On 24 April 1988 Bonefish was submerged, during an exercise with guided-missile frigate USSCarr, about 160mi (260km) off the Atlantic coast of Florida, when seawater began leaking onto cables and electric buses in a battery-supply cableway. She sighted a Japanese task force consisting of three battleships, one aircraft carrier, three heavy cruisers, and one light cruiser, screened by eight destroyers. With Bonefish surfaced and her bridge hatch open, the crew now sought to ventilate the vessel by running the diesel engines to clear the smoke, hopefully making it possible to fight the fire. for complete and accurate listing of men lost on USS The salvage ship USS Hoist began towing the 219-foot-long Bonefish Wednesday afternoon to its home port of Charleston, S.C., where Navy experts will be able to take a closer look at the damage,. Sixty-five submarines built for the United USS Flier (SS-250) was lost on 13-Aug-1944 with the Her wreck was only recently discovered. while being towed, after collision with USS Silverstein (DE-534). This area was further subdivided, with BONEFISH assigned to patrol the northern portion. WDR gives date spread as 11-9-44 to 11-16-44, USS F-1 [ex-CARP] (SS-20) was lost on 17-Dec-1917 Bonefish was on fire from the inside outand she was still underwater. During that tour of duty, she participated in exercises with units of the Korean and Taiwanese navies as well as with elements of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. loss of 56 crew when it was sunk on 5th patrol off Paramushiru, Kuriles USS Bonefish (SS 582) - A crewmembers recollection of the fire in 1988 A Crewmember's recollection of the fire in 1988 The report below was contributed by QM2/SS Richard (Rick) Neault, U.S. Navy Ret. But the fire onboard the Bonefish remains arguably the most important asterisk to the Navys impressive submarine safety record. That April Bonefish participated in an anti-submarine training exercise with the John F. Kennedys carrier taskforce 160 miles east of Floridaparticularly sparring with Kennedys anti-submarine helicopters and the escorting frigate USS Carr. Photographs and personal information are needed as indicated in the column at right. The wreck lies upright with its bow missing and A turret pointing aft. Aboard the Carr they were treated to donated clothing and a warm meal as they recovered from the ordeal. Bonefish returned to Pearl Harbor from that routine deployment on 7 November and began 13 months of local operations. USS Tang (SS-306) was lost on 25-Oct-1944 with the While on lifeguard duty off Korea's southern coast on 16 April, Bonefish rescued two Japanese aviators who had been shot down by a Navy plane. The attack group was to depart the Sea of Japan via La Perouse Strait on the night of 24 June. He remained overnight in the medical ward on the carrier for his injuries. USS Trout (SS-202) was lost on or after 29-Feb-1944 The submarine next trained her torpedo tubes on a convoy of 13 ships which she contacted on 9 February in Camranh Bay. Shes pretty distraught, he said of Mrs. Lindgren. Repairs occupied her until June 1969, and post-overhaul trials and refresher training followed. USS S-36 was lost on 20-Jan . This coordinated attack group under Commander G. E. Pierce in TUNNY, which was one of three groups then penetrating the Japan Sea, was ordered to transit Tsushima Strait on 5 June 1945 and to conduct offensive patrol in the Sea of Japan off the west coast of Honshu. The next day, the boat made a submerged approach on an unidentified Japanese vessel and fired six torpedoes, scoring one hit; Bonefish never learned the fate of her target. The submarine conducted normal operations out of San Diego until 4 October, when she entered the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for her first regular overhaul. loss of 50 crew when it foundered off Hawaii , while operating with USCGC On the morning of 18 June, TUNNY and BONEFISH rendezvoused in the vicinity of 38 15'N, 136 24'E. Remarks: Possibly diveable water. Towed back to Charleston by the aptly named USS Hoist, she was decommissioned five months later and scrapped. Remarks: R states sinking off Southern Formosa. Indonesia, by USS Rowell; 02 32 N; 129 18E. The Kaga shipwreck (Image credit: Courtesy of Vulcan Inc. ) After weeks spent surveying an area of ocean about the size of Houston, historians aboard the research vessel Petrel spotted the . USS Wahoo (SS-238) was a Gato-class submarine, the first United States Navy ship to be named for the wahoo.Construction started before the U.S. entered World War II, and she was commissioned after entry. Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM That tour of duty ended with her return to Oahu in July. She cleared the area and arrived at Fremantle on 19 December. USS Amberjack (SS-219) was lost on 16-Feb-1943 with A five-man salvage crew aboard the Bonefish waited for strong winds and rough seas to subside Tuesday afternoon, then conducted tests that found high concentrations of toxic gases inside, said Lt. Fred Henney, a spokesman for the Atlantic Fleet in Norfolk. USS Pompano (SS-181) was lost on 1-Sep-1943 with This ship went to the Celebes and Sulu Seas for her fourth patrol and sank two freighters, a transport and a tanker, while she damaged a sub chaser. USS S-27 (SS-132) was lost on 19-Jun-1942 when it grounded off Amchitka Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR. 5 50N) Mike Wilson, praised the heroism of his crew. the crew dies, sometimes there are survivors. On Eternal Patrol - USS Bonefish (SS-223) The following men were lost while serving on USS Bonefish (SS-223). During that two..day time at sea with BONEFISH there were several realizations that convinced me of the irrefutable wisdom of the way we run todays submarine force. In May, the submarine again headed for the western Pacific for a deployment quite similar to her first cruise in Oriental waters. During a rendezvous with Tunny on 16 June, Bonefish reported sinking Oshikayama Maru, a 6,892ton cargo ship. 30"W Meetings begin at 1200, but come early and share a sea story or two. The next day, Bonefish fired a spread of four torpedoes at a cargo ship headed for Davao Gulf but, in spite of three hits, failed to sink the target. Recognizing that the ship was taking on water and that the conditions inside the submarine were unbelievably difficult for salvage, I arrived on the scene and was helo-ed out with my party to one of our frigates in the KENNEDY battlegroup which was steaming in the vicinity. I will always remember JOHN F. KENNEDY, a thousand yards off BONEFISHs beam at a time when we thought we might lose the ship. Bonefish concluded her first war patrol back at Fremantle, Western Australia, on 21 October. The Soviets sailors associated with the lost YANKEE and the MIKE may have found themselves in not too different a set of circumstances than what we found on BONEFISH. Lt. Michael Langston, chaplain at the Asheville Naval Reserve Center in Asheville, N.C., said he was told to notify Lindgrens mother and brother in nearby Pisgah Forest. USS Golet (SS-361) was lost on 14-Jun-1944 with the while being towed off. U-boat, a patrolling B-24 or by accident. 2 before making an emergency dive in shallow water. Bonefish was one of three Barbel-class submarines commissioned in 1959, incorporating new design features such as a sleek tear-drops-shaped hull and a consolidated layout situating the command and fire control centers under the bridge/conning tower. The damage was extensive enough that repair was not attempted. The crews of a whaleboat from Carr and helicopters from both Carr and the aircraft carrier USSJohn F. Kennedy rescued 89 men. The keel of the second Bonefish ( SS-582) was laid 3 June 1957 at New York Shipbuilding Corp. Camden N. J.; launched 22 November 1958; and sponsored by Mrs. Lawrence L. Edge widow of Commander Edge. But new to Bonefish, he wasnt aware that the hatch suffered from a defect in her lugs, long reported but ignored, and required a reverse quarter-turn to open. D: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Remarks: WDR gives date spread as 8-20 to 9-27-43 Following the normal post-deployment leave and upkeep period, she resumed operations along the west coast of North America. loss of 84 crew when it was sunk in South China Sea. Visibility nil, side scan sonar images BBC Science Correspondent Explorers have found the deepest shipwreck ever identified, a US navy destroyer escort sunk during WWII. Two of the four one hit amidships and another struck the freighter under her mainmast sent the 4,646ton cargo ship Suez Maru down rapidly by the stern. Bonefish concluded her first tour of duty with the 7th Fleet on 13 March 1961 when she arrived back in San Diego. In April 1966, Bonefish deployed to the western Pacific for the fourth time. This vessel's fifth patrol was in the same area as her fourth, and she sank two small freighters, a large tanker and five miscellaneous small craft, while she damaged a second tanker. That structure in the final analysis gave me the room to do what was necessary to oversee the salvage of the ship with the knowledge that every effort would be made to send help if I needed it. Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR crew were taken prisoner, only 21 survived the war) made after leaving Darwin around 17 Novemeber 1943. Remarks: Diveable water of less than 200 feet The captain of the frigate gathered the crew on the fantail of the ship. On 26 April, she intercepted a convoy of four ships steaming along the Mindanao coast. loss of 90 crew when it was sunk in channel midway between Hainan and Bashi She emerged from the shipyard on 25 June 1977 to begin post-overhaul refresher training. The Navy said the first explosion hit the Bonefish on Sunday afternoon as it was running at periscope depth, engaged in training exercises with surface vessels 160 miles off Florida. Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR There can be little doubt that Bonefish was sunk in this action. The dead were identified as Lt. Ray Everts Jr., 30, of Naoma, W.Va.; Petty Officer 1st Class Robert W. Bordelon Jr., 39, of Willis, Texas; and Petty Officer 3rd Class Marshall T. Lindgren, 21, of Pisgah Forest, N.C. Chief Petty Officer Terry D. Borton, a spokesman at Atlantic Fleet headquarters here, said two of the bodies were found at their stations in the control room of the ship and a third was found in an administrative compartment. A civilian submarine expert said the 30-year-old Bonefish, one of the Navys last remaining diesel-electric subs, was probably full of toxic chlorine gas created by fire in the shipss forward battery compartment. She set course for Fremantle the next day, ending her patrol there on 13 August. No reports from boat made after leaving Darwin around 17 Novemeber 1943. On 3 August, she damaged a tanker with one torpedo hit. The submarine was taking on water in the torpedo room and the stem room, and when we arrived on scene, was about six or seven degrees down by the bow with water up to the foot of the sail. with editorial notes by Robert H. Downie,originally from: U.S. In September, the submarine entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for her regular overhaul. Remarks: Declared lost sometime after 13 November 1944, later revised. Sources: R, D, SFLM The maneuver succeeded in temporarily clearing smoke from the control room but not the remainder of the vessel. The warship arrived back in Pearl Harbor on 15 May. loss of 26 crew, 33 rescued when it flooded and sank off Portsmouth, NH. Petty Officer Grossman swam thousands of yards in the choppy waters and received credit for having saved 19 lives. Sources: R, D, SFLM Sources: R, D, Ros, SFLM, WDR Remains of the numbers 36 and 140 appear on the wrecked . I had to answer to no one else. USS O-9 (SS-70) was lost on 20-Jun-1941 with the Serving most of her career in the Pacific Ocean, Bonefish crossed the Panama canal in 1982 and joined the Atlantic fleet. Experts on the research. The Lagarto has been located and the US Navy the loss of 79 crew when it was sunk in or near La Perouse Strait. Following refit and training, the submarine sailed from Fremantle on 12 January 1944 to conduct her third war patrol.