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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

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Grenadier (SS-210)

Radio Call Sign: November - Echo - Lima - Delta

Gar Class Submarine: Laid down, 2 April 1940, at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, NH; Launched, 20 November 1940; Commissioned, USS Grenadier (SS-210), 1 May 1941; Lost to enemy action in the Lem Voalan Strait, northeast Indian Ocean, hit by Japanese bombs 21 April 1943, scuttled by her crew 22 April 1943; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Grenadier received four battle stars for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 1,475 t., Submerged: 2,370 t.; Length 307' 2"; Beam 27' 3"; Draft 13' 3"; Speed, Surfaced 20 kts, Submerged 8.75 kts; Complement 5 Officers, 54 Enlisted; Armament, ten 21" torpedo tubes, 24 torpedoes, one 3"/50 dual purpose deck gun, two .50 cal. machine guns, two .30 cal. machine guns; Propulsion, diesel-electric, four General Motors Co., diesel engines, 5.400 hp, Fuel Capacity, 96,365 gals., four General Electric Co., electric motors, 2,740 hp, Battery cells 252, twin propellers.

Size	Image Description	Source
125k	Ship's Sponsor, Mrs. Walter A. Anderson, with other members of the launching party, during Grenadier's (SS-210) christening ceremonies at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 29 November 1940. Those present include, in the front row, left to right: Captain Henry F.D. Davis, Navy Yard Industrial Manager; Rear Admiral Walter A. Anderson, Director of Naval Intelligence; Rear Admiral John D. Wainwright, Navy Yard Commandant; Mrs. Walter A. Anderson; Miss. Patricia Crosley of New York City; Captain John J. Brown; and Lieutenant H.K. Leslie, Aide to RAdm. Wainwright. Second row, left to right: Mrs. John D. Wainwright; and Mrs. G.B. Crosley. Third row, left to right: Commander A.I. McKee, Navy Yard Planning Officer; Mrs. Henry F.D. Davis; Mrs. John J. Brown; and Lieutenant Hale. Mr. Joseph F. Flanagan is in the top center.	U.S. Navy Photograph, # NH 91225, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
24k	Commemorative postal cover marking the commissioning of the Grenadier (SS-210), 1 May 1941.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
75k	Commissioning of the Grenadier (SS-210), at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, NH, 1 May 1941.	US Navy photo, courtesy of ussubvetsofworldwarii.org.
59k	Commissioning of the Grenadier (SS-210), at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, NH, 1 May 1941.	US Navy photo, courtesy of MMCM (SS) Greg Peterman.
24k	Commemorative postal cover marking the commissioning of the Grenadier (SS-210), 1 May 1941.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
75k	Commemorative postal cover marking Grenadier (SS-210) ready for the deep, 16 May 1941.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
162k	Postal cover marking the deep dive of the Grenadier (SS-210) on 8 July 1941.	Courtesy of Darryl Baker.
20k	Commemorative postal cover marking Navy Day, 27 October 1941 and the following submarines commissioned since the previous year: Trout (SS-202), Tuna (SS-203), Mackerel (SS-204), Marlin (SS-205), Gar (SS-206), Grampus (SS-207), Grayback (SS-208), Grayling (SS-209), Grenadier (SS-210) & Gudgeon(SS-211).	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
10k	Grenadier (SS-210), off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 27 December 1941.	Official U.S. Navy Photograph, # NH 99403, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
58k	Some of the survivors of the crew of the Grenadier (SS-210), 15 September 1945 as Prisoners of War at Fukuoka Camp No. 3 located northeast of Yawata between Tabata and Kokura: Back Row L-R: Dean B. Shoemaker, Ben H. Fulton, Randolph J. Garrison, ?iner B. Pierce, John H. Gunderson, Bernard W. Witzke Center Row L-R: William H. Keefe, Charles (n) Roskell, Hentry W. Rutkowski, Rex R. Evans, Lyle L. Sawatzke, Charles H. Whitlock, Charles E. Johnson Front Row L-R: Joseph A. Minton, John K. Simpson, Riley H. Keysor, Virgil A. Quillette, Thomas J. Trigg.	Courtesy of submarinesailor.com.
127k	One of the survivors of the crew of the Grenadier (SS-210), Lyle Sawatzke.	Courtesy of Indiana Bloomfield Monitor, / Dick Buschelman.
20k	Approximate location of the area where the Grenadier (SS-210) was lost, Lem Voalan Strait (northwest of Penang on the Malay Peninsula).	Photo courtesy of sailwx.info.
108k	Google Earth satellite photo of the Grenadier (SS-210) last approximate position based during post-war debriefings.	View courtesy of Google Earth.
117k	The wife of a World War II U.S. submarine veteran, tosses a flower into a reflecting pool to honor the memory of one of the 52 submarines lost during World War II at the National Submarine Memorial-West on board Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, Calif. On this Veterans Day, the Submarine Veterans of World War II transferred ownership of the memorial to the U.S. Navy. The following text is from The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton., pg. 478. "Major Sullivan Bullen of Illinois was killed in the battle, and just before it he had written to his wife, Sarah, to tell her that he believed he was going to be killed and to express a tremulous faith that could see a gleam of light in the dark: "But O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and float unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you in the gladdest days and in the gloomiest nights, always, always, and if there be a soft breeze upon your chest it shall be my breath, as the cool air fans your throbbing temple it shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah, do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait, for we shall meet again!"	U.S. Navy photo # N-1159B-021 by Journalist 2nd Class Brian Brannon, courtesy of news.navy.mil.
955k	Article and photo of the CO and three guys off Grenadier (SS-210) sunk in WWII. It was taken at the decommissioning and transfer of Grenadier (SS-525) to Venezuala. The article appeared in the "Key West Outpost" (the base paper) on 23 May 1973. As an interesting side note, the paper got the hull number wrong, in the first line of the article. Grenadier (SS-210) was the one lost in WWII.	Photo & article courtesy of Mikle Keating.
44k	In memory of the Grenadier (SS-210).	Courtesy of Tom Kermen.
131k	U.S. Sub Lost Washington, D.C. - A communiqué by the Navy Department, 14 Sept. announced the loss of the U.S. submarine Grenadier (SS-210) (seen here at her launching), one of the Navy’s newer underwater ships. The twelfth American submarine to be lost in this war, the *Grenadier* is presumed to have gone down in the Pacific. It carried a crew of approximately 65. In Memorium: In the Second Book of Shmuel (Samuel), 22nd chapter, 5th through the 20th verses, translated from the original in Hebrew and published by the Koren Publishers of Jerusalem, Israel, 1982, can perhaps aptly describe the fate of the crew and all other U.S. submariners who died defending their county: "When the waves of death compassed me / the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; / the bonds of She'ol encircled me; / the snares of death took me by surprise; / in my distress I called upon the Lord, / and cried to my G-D: / and he heard my voice out of his temple, / and my cry entered into his ears. / Then the earth shook and trembled; /the foundations of heaven moved / and shook because of his anger /...the heavy mass of waters, and thick clouds of the skies /... And the channels of the sea appeared, / the foundations of the world were laid bare, / at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast at the breath of his nostrils. / He sent from above, he took me; / he drew me out of many waters; / he delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too strong for me. / They surprised me in the day of my calamity: / but the Lord was my stay / He brought me forth also into a large place: / he delivered me because he delighted in me./"	Official U.S. Navy Photo from ACME, New York Bureau, dated 9-15-43, courtesy of Bill Gonyo. Photo added 05/10/08.