After an extensive
overhaul after salvage the USS Squalus was renamed
USS Sailfish SS
192. She went on to have a very successful war record
sinking or damaging
20 vessels for a total of 83,769 tons. She was
decommissioned October
27, 1945 and sold for scrap March 30, 1948.
Her conning tower
and periscope shears were on display
at the Washington
Navy Yard for many years.
USS Sailfish
SS 192
USS Sailfish
SS 192 duiring a 1943 overhaul at Mare Island Ship yard
Sailfish received
many equipment upgrades. These are the items on
the photo that have
been circled in white. Most likely this was a larger
deck gun, better
underwater listening gear and most likely mine detection
sonar to navigate
Japnaese minefields around the home islands and in
the entrances to
the Inland Sea.
USS Sailfish
SS 192 showing more of the war time modifacation.
Here workmen are
working on the screw guards that protect damage to them.
USS Sailfish
SS 192 and crew pose at wars end at rear of conning tower fairwater.
Note that the afterbattery
hatch is a centerline hatch not offset
to one side like
on the newer submarines.
Sailfish making
her last dive dockside before decommissioning
October 27th, 1945
Portsmouth, New Hampshire Shipyard
Milne
Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, N.H.
Sailfish making
her last dive dockside before decommissioning
Milne
Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, N.H.
Sailfish making
her last dive dockside before decommissioning
Milne
Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, N.H.
