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BONEFISH BASE

United States Submarine Veterans, Inc.

Redlands, California

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Submarines on Eternal Patrol with their entire crews:

USS SHARK I (SS-174) 11FEB42 - 58 lost
Japanese Surface Attack, Makassar Strait, Celebes Island

USS GRUNION (SS-216) 30JUL42 - 70 lost
Unknown causes off Kiska Island, Aleutians

USS ARGONAUT I (SS-166) 10JAN43 - 105 lost
Japanese Surface Attack in Java Sea

USS AMBERJACK I (SS-219) 16FEB43 - 74 lost
Japanese Air/Surface Attack in Solomon Sea

USS GRAMPUS I (SS-207) 5MAR43 - 71 lost
Japanese Surface Attack, Solomon Islands

USS TRITON I (SS-201) 15MAR43 - 74 lost
Japanese Surface Attack off New Guinea

USS PICKEREL I (SS-177) 3APR43 - 74 lost
Japanese Surface Attack off Honshu, Japan

USS RUNNER I (SS-275) JUN43 - 78 lost
Possible Japanese Mine between Midway Island and Japan

USS POMPANO I (SS-181) SEP43 - 76 lost
Possible Japanese Mine off Honshu, Japan

USS GRAYLING I (SS-209) 12SEP43 - 76 lost
Unknown causes along approaches to Manila, P.I.

USS CISCO (SS-290) 28SEP43 - 76 lost
Japanese Air/Surface Attack in Sulu Sea

USS DORADO I (SS-248) 12OCT43 - 76 lost
Air Attack in S.W. Atlantic

USS WAHOO I (SS-238) 11OCT43 - 80 lost
Japanese Air/Surface Attack in La Perouse Strait off Japan

USS CORVINA (SS-226) 16NOV43 - 82 lost
Japanese Submarine Attack off Truk

USS CAPELIN (SS-289) 2DEC43 - 78 lost
Unconfirmed Japanese Surface Attack in Celebes Sea

USS SCORPION I (SS-278) 5JAN44 - 76 lost
Possible Japanese Mine in Yellow Sea off China

USS GRAYBACK I (SS-208) 27FEB44 - 80 lost
Japanese Air/Surface Attack off Okinawa

USS TROUT I (SS-202) 29FEB44 - 81 lost
Japanese Surface Attack in Philippine Sea

USS GUDGEON I (SS-211) 12MAY44 - 78 lost
Japanese Air/Surface Attack in Northern Marianas

USS HERRING (SS-233) 1JUN44 - 84 lost
Japanese Shore Battery off Matsuwa Island, Kuriles

USS S-28 (SS-133) 4JUN44 - 50 lost
Foundered off Hawaiian Islands

USS GOLET (SS-361) 14JUN44 - 82 lost
Japanese Surface Attack off Honshu, Japan

USS ROBALO (SS-273) 26JUL44 - 78 lost
Possible Japanese Mine off Palawan 4 POWs

USS HARDER I (SS-257) 24AUG44 - 79 lost
Japanese Depth Charge Attack off Luzon, P.I.

USS SEAWOLF II (SS-197) 30OCT44 - 99 lost
USS ROWELL off Morotai Island

USS ESCOLAR (SS-294) 17OCT44 - 82 lost
Possible Japanese Mine in Yellow Sea off China

USS SHARK II (SS-314) 24OCT44 - 87 lost
Japanese Depth Charge Attack off Formosa

USS ALBACORE I (SS-218) 7NOV44 - 86 lost
Possible Japanese Mine between Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan

USS GROWLER I (SS-215) 8NOV44 - 85 lost
Possible Japanese Surface Attack in South China Sea

USS SCAMP I (SS-277) 11NOV44 - 83 lost
Japanese Surface Attack in Tokyo Bay area

USS SWORDFISH I (SS-193) 12JAN45 - 89 lost
Possible Japanese Surface Attack or Mine off Okinawa

USS BARBEL I (SS-316) 4FEB45 - 81 lost
Japanese Air Attack off entrance to Palawan Passage

USS KETE (SS-369) MAR45 - 87 lost
Unknown causes between Okinawa and Midway

USS TRIGGER I (SS-237) 28MAR45 - 89 lost
Japanese Air/Surface Attack in East China Sea

USS SNOOK I (SS-279) 8APR 45 - 84 lost
Unknown causes off Formosa

USS LAGARTO (SS-371) 4MAY45 - 85 lost
Japanese Surface Attack in Gulf of Siam

USS BONEFISH I (SS-223) 18JUN45 - 85 lost
Japanese Surface Attack off Honshu, Japan

USS BULLHEAD (SS-332) 6AUG45 - 84 lost
Japanese Air Attack off Bali Coast

USS THRESHER II (SSN-593) 10APR63 - 129 lost
Operational off New England Coast

USS SCORPION II (SSN-589) 22MAY68 - 99 lost
Possible Torpedo Detonation off Azores

Submarines lost with portions of their crews on Eternal Patrol:

USS F4 (SS-23) 25MAR15 - 21 lost
Battery Explosion off Honolulu

USS F1 (SS-20) 16DEC17 - 19 lost
Rammed off Honolulu

USS G2 (SS-27) 30JUL19 - 3 lost
Foundered in Long Island Sound

USS H1 (SS-28) 12MAR20 - 4 lost
Foundered off Santa Margarita Island, CA

USS O5 (SS-66) 20OCT23 - 3 lost
Rammed in Limon Bay, Canal Zone

USS S51 (SS-162) 25SEP25 - 33 lost
Rammed off Block Island, Rhode Island

USS SQUALUS (SS-192) 23MAY39 - 26 lost
Foundered off Portsmouth, New Hampshire (boat salvaged and recommissioned under a new name)

USS O9 (SS-70) 20JUN41 - 33 lost
Foundered off Isle of Shoals

USS SEALION I (SS-195) 10DEC41 - 4 lost
Japanese Air Attack, Cavite Navy Yard, P.I.

USS S26 (SS-131) 24JAN42 - 46 lost
Collision in Gulf of Panama

USS R12 (SS-89) 12JUN43 - 42 lost
Foundered off Key West, Florida

USS S44 (SS-155) 7OCT43 - 55 lost
Japanese Surface Attack is Sea of Okhotsk

USS SCULPHIN I (SS-191) 19NOV43 - 12 lost
Japanese Surface Attack off Truk 51 POWs

USS TULLIBEE I (SS-284) 26MAR44 - 79 lost
Circular run of own Torpedo off Palau Islands

USS FLIER (SS-250) 13AUG44 - 78 lost
Japanese Mine in Balabac Strait

USS TANG I (SS-306) 24OCT44 - 78 lost
Circular run of own Torpedo in Formosa Strait

USS COCHINO (SS-345) 26AUG49 - 1 lost
Battery Explosion off Norway

Shipmates on Eternal Patrol as a result of accidents
which did not result in the loss of the boat:

USS S49 (SS-160) 40APR26 - 4 lost
Battery Explosion, SubBase New London, Boat survived

USS S4 (SS-109) 17DEC27 - 40 lost
Rammed off Provincetown, Massachusetts, Boat salvaged

USS SEADRAGON (SS-194) 10DEC41 - 1 lost
Japanese Air Attack, Cavite Navy Yard, P.I., Boat survived

USS BASS I (SS-164) 1942 - 25 lost
Flooding off Panama Canal, Boat survived

USS PERCH I (SS-176) 3MAR42 - 6 POWs
Scuttled after Japanese Depth Charge Attack

USS GRENADIER I (SS-210) 22APR43 - 4 POWs
Scuttled after Japanese Air Attack, Malay Peninsula

USS GROWLER (SS-215) date unknown - 1 lost
Surface action with Japanese vessel

USS TUSK (SS-426) 26AUG49 - 6 lost
Assisting USS COCHINO off Norway, Boat survived

USS BONEFISH II (SS-582) 24APR88 - 3 lost
Fire and Explosion off Florida, Boat decommissioned


Submariner's Prayer

Eternal God, whose creative hand turned primeval seas into oceans wide, and whose omnipresent love can be as keenly felt beneath as above their undulating surface; descend with us now into the silent depths as our unfailing guide.

We men of the silent service are grateful to be among the few ever to thrill with the excitement of a dive, and sheer ecstasy of each surfacing. May we never look upon these maneuvers as mere routine, for each is an experience fresh with challenge and no little danger.  May we be ever alert to our individual duties realizing that so much depends on our doing our duty without error.

May we remember the new member of our crew who is to make his first descent, and breathe a prayer that he shall be a good submariner. May we, who know what it is to follow a course, also know Him, who said "I am the way." May we, who gulp in hastily the first breaths of fresh air as it rushes down the hatchway following every dive, know also thy refreshing spirit.

May we who know the necessity for companionship feel our partnership with thee when the hatches are dogged and when we are rigged for dive. When all else of the surface world has been closed out, may we feel thee in every compartment, as near to us as throbbing engines, pinging sonar and the hissing of compressed air.  And when, as aging submariners our souls have descended into the depths of eternity, may the final call to us be "Surface, surface, surface," in the name of Him who rides as the unseen crewman on every ship at sea. 

Amen.

 
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