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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

Patches courtesy of Don McGrogan BMCS, USN (ret.)

Squalus / Sailfish (SS-192)
Re-commissioning and WW II Service

Radio Call Sign: November - India - Delta - Zulu

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Sargo Class Submarine: Laid down, 18 October 1937, at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME.; Launched, 14 September 1938; Commissioned, USS Squalus (SS-192), 1 March 1939; Sunk by mechanical failure, 23 May 1939; Refloated, 13 September 1939; Decommission, 15 November 1939, at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, NH; Recommissioned, USS Sailfish (SS-192), 15 May 1940; Decommissioned, 27 October 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 30 April 1948; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 18 June 1948, to Luria Brothers, Philadelphia, PA. Sailfish was awarded nine battle stars for service in the Pacific and received the Presidential Unit Citation.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 1,400 t., Submerged: 2,350 t.; Length 310' 6" ; Beam 27' 1"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed, Surfaced 20 kts, Submerged 7.75 kts; Complement 5 Officers, 50 Enlisted; Maximum Depth Limit, 250'; Armament, eight 21" torpedo tubes, 24 torpedoes, one 3"/50 deck gun, two .50 cal machine guns, two .30 cal machine guns; Propulsion, diesel-electric engines, GE diesel engines, HP 5500, Fuel Capacity, 190,000 gals., GE motors, HP 2740, 252 battery cells. twin screws.

Size	Image Description	Source
12k	Istiophorus platypterus, a Sailfish.	Illustrated by Diane Rome Peebles. Photo courtesy of myfwc.com.
17k	One year commemorative postal cover dedicated to the memory of the crew of the Squalus (SS-192) who died at their posts when the boat sank by mechanical failure, 23 May 1939.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
21k	Commemorative post mark on the occasion of the submarines Sargo (SS-188), Saury (SS-189), Spearfish (SS-190), Sculpin (SS-191), Squalus (SS-192) & Swordfish (SS-193) honoring Navy Day, 27 October 1939.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
32k	Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of the de-commissioning of the Squalus (SS-192), 15 November 1939.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
24k	Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of the de-commissioning of the Squalus (SS-192), 15 November 1939.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
70k	Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of the re-commissioning of the Sailfish (SS-192), 15 May 1940.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
16k	Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of the re-commissioning of the Sailfish (SS-192), 15 May 1940.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
181k	Sailfish (SS-192) in New York City harbor, with the Porto Rico (that's how it is spelled in the photo)terminal buildings behind her, sometime after her recommissioning after 15 May 1940 to 16 January 1941, when she parted Portsmouth and headed for the Pacific.	U.S. Navy photo contributed by Skip Riser. Partial text courtesy of DANFS.
36k	Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of the Sailfish's (SS-192) first submergence, 29 June 1940.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
90k	Sailfish (SS-192) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 13 April 1943.	US National Archives photo # 19-N-43269, from the Bureau of Ships Collection.
90k	Sailfish (SS-192) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 13 April 1943.	US National Archives photo # 19-N-43270, from the Bureau of Ships Collection.
90k	Sailfish (SS-192) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 13 April 1943, following an overhaul.	US Navy photo # NH 97307, from the collections of the US Naval Archives.
90k	Sailfish (SS-192) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 13 April 1943, following an overhaul.	US Navy photo # NH 97308, from the collections of the US Naval Archives.
90k	Sailfish (SS-192) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 13 April 1943, following an overhaul. Circles on the photograph identify recent alternations to the ship. Gilmore (DE-18) is in the left background.	US National Archives photo # 19-N-43274, from the Bureau of Ships Collection.
95k	Broadside view of the Sailfish (SS-192) off Mare Island on 13 April 1943.	USN photo # 2566-43, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
90k	Sailfish (SS-192) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 13 April 1943, following an overhaul. Circles on the photograph identify recent alternations to the ship. Note men in rowboat inspecting her limber holes, by the stubs of her removed propeller guards. Barges *YF-200* and *YF-190* are in the center background.	US National Archives photo # 19-N-43273, from the Bureau of Ships Collection.
16k	Sailfish (SS-192), oil painting, unknown artist, circa 1943/45.	Author's collection.
90k	Sailfish (SS-192) crew members pose by the after end of the conning tower, while Sailfish was at Naval Submarine Base, New London, Groton, CT., in 1945. Her Presidential Unit Citation flag is flying behind the periscope sheers, in upper center. Original photo is dated September 1945.	US National Archives photo # 80-G-700762.
91k	Memorial plaque at Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia PA, July 2006 for the crews of United States submarines lost during peace time accidents: F-1 (SS-20), F-4 (SS-23), G-2 (SS-27), H-1 (SS-28), O-5 (SS-66), O-9 (SS-70), S-4 (SS-109), S-51 (SS-162), Squalus (SS-192), Scorpion (SSN-589) & Thresher (SSN-593).	Photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr.
52k	The sail of the Sailfish (SS-192) preserved as a memorial to its crew, at the US Navy's Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine.	Photo & text courtesy of Bill Fessenden. Photo added 07/21/07.