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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

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Conger (SS-477) (AGSS-477)

Radio Call Sign: November - Yankee - Delta - Romeo

Tench Class Submarine: Laid down, 11 July 1944, at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME.; Launched, 17 October 1944; Commissioned USS Conger (SS-477), 14 February 1945; Reclassified, Auxiliary Submarine (AGSS-477) in 1962; Decommissioned, 29 July 1963; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1963; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 9 June 1964 to Peck Iron Co., Portsmouth, VA for $ 44,306.00. Removed 30 June 1964.
Partial data submitted by Ron Reeves, HTC, USNR (ret.)

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 1,570 t., Submerged: 2,414 t.; Length 311' 8"; Beam 27' 4"; Draft 15' 3"; Speed, Surfaced 20.25 kts, Submerged 8.75 kts; Cruising Range, 11,000 miles surfaced at 10kts; Submerged Endurance, 48 hours at 2kts; Operating Depth, 400 ft; Complement 7 Officers 69 Enlisted; Armament, ten 21" torpedo tubes, six forward, four aft, 24 torpedoes, one 5"/25 deck gun, two 20mm guns, two .30 cal. machine guns; Patrol Endurance 75 days; Propulsion, diesel-electric reduction gear with four Fairbanks Morse main generator engines, 5,400HP, Fuel Capacity, 113,510 gal., two Elliot Motor Co. main motors with 2,740HP, two 126-cell main storage batteries, two propellers.

Size	Image Description	Source
688k	The crew of the Conger (SS-477) aboard for Navy Day, 1945. The Odax (SS-484) is moored alongside.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
190k	Chief Petty Officers & crew of the Conger (SS-477) pose around one of the boats' two 20mm guns on Navy Day, 1945.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
981k	The crew of the Conger (SS-477) pose on Navy Day, 1945. Lieutenant Commander H. D. Sipple is the 6th in the first row.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
147	Conger (SS-477) alongside the tender Orion (AS-18), circa 1945.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
260	The following 10 photos show a torpedo being loaded aboard the Conger (SS-477). Two boats are alongside, one of them is the Runner (SS-476), circa 1945. In this photo the torpedo is being lifted aboard from a launch.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
361	The torpedo is hoisted aboard the Conger (SS-477), where it will be swiveled 180`.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
368	The tail end of the torpedo is being angeled aboard the Conger (SS-477).	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
253	The tail end of the torpedo is being angeled aboard the Conger (SS-477), with the warhead starting to being turned towards the bow.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
343	The torpedo is almost level with the deck.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
227	The crew handling the torpedo start to angle it towards the opening in the deck.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
170	The torpedo is entering the hold.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
233	The torpedo's nose is entering the hold. The Runner (SS-476) is off the Conger's (SS-477) starboard side.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
287	The torpedo enters into the hold. The Runner (SS-476) is off the Conger's (SS-477) starboard side.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
233	The torpedo is in the hold.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
164k	Cover sheet of the Conger's (SS-477) party, 20 June 1946.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
297k	Crew list of the Conger's (SS-477) plankowners & brief history through 20 June 1946.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
268k	Stern view of Crevalle (SS-291) at Balboa, C.Z. and other unidentified boats, among them the Conger (SS-477), sometime between late April - July 1946. She cruised to the Canal Zone and the Virgin Islands before being placed out of commission in reserve at New London 20 July 1946.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott. Partial text courtesy of DANFS.
558k	Welcome Aboard Conger (SS-477) Info sheet, 1947.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
779k	No. 1 & 2 tubes in the forward torpedo room of the Conger (SS-477), 1947.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
642	Cotton Festival article describing visit of Conger (SS-477) to Memphis Tennessee in 1947 and subsequent story concerning the contributor's father, TM 2C Donald McAndie.	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
242k	This photo might take place immeadiatley before the following photo taken from the bridge area of the Conger (SS-477); several boats at berth at Cristobal, C.Z. & what looks to be from left to right are the Cutlass (SS-478), Runner (SS-476) & Amberjack (SS-522).	Photo courtesy of Jamie Stott.
125k	Several boats at berth at Cristobal, C.Z. Among the boats known to be based there in 1946-47, and what looks to be from left to right are the Conger (SS-477), Cutlass (SS-478), Runner (SS-476) & Amberjack (SS-522).	Photo courtesy of Jim Carroll and submitted by Mike Keating.
125k	Five boats at berth at Cristobal, C.Z., Balboa Sub Base. The Conger (SS-477) is the only identifiable boat here.	Photo courtesy of Jim Carroll and submitted by Mike Keating.
56k	Conger (SS-477) arrived at the Charleston S.C., shipyard on August 27, 1948. The *Conger* was the first submarine to be overhauled after the yard was designated a submarine overhaul yard in April, 1948.	Courtesy of Robert Hall.
55k	Conger (SS-477) sometime after 1948.	US Navy photo.
86k	LCDR. Robert Henry Gautier was the commanding officer of the Conger (SS-477) from December 1957 to April 1959.	Photo courtesy of Bill Gonyo. Photo added 09/09/09.
176k	Conger (AGSS-477) in March 1963, in Thames river off New London CT., going out for her 12,000 dive.	Courtesy of John Hummel.