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1914 - PCU H-3 (ex-GARFISH) (SS-30) commissioned USS H-3 at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA; Lt. (j.g.) William R. Munroe commanding.
1917 - PCU N-2 (SS-54) launched at Seattle Construction and Drydock Company, Seattle, WA; sponsored by Mrs. Whitford Drake.
1922 - Ex-A-2 (ex-ADDER) (SS-3) struck from the Naval Vessel Register.
1922 - Ex-A-3 (ex-GRAMPUS) (SS-4) struck from the Naval Vessel Register; final disposition, dismantled and used as a target by ships of the Asiatic Fleet. Hulk sunk in Manila Bay, near Corregidor.
1922 - Ex-A-4 (ex-MOCCASIN) (SS-5) struck from the Naval Vessel Register and sunk as a target. Hulk sunk in Manila Bay, near Corregidor, P.I.
1922 - Ex-A-5 (ex-PIKE) (SS-6) struck from the Naval Vessel Register and designated as a target vessel, fate unknown.
1922 - Ex-A-6 (ex-PORPOISE) (SS-7) struck from the Naval Vessel Register and authorized as a target in July, 1921. Sunk as a target, hulk sunk in Manila Bay, near Corregidor, P.I.
1922 - Ex-A-7 (ex-SHARK) (SS-8) struck from the Naval Vessel Register and sunk as a target. Hulk sunk in Manila Bay, near Corregidor, P.I.
1922 - Ex-B-1 (ex-VIPER) (SS-10) sunk as a target. Hulk sunk in Manila Bay, near Corregidor, P.I.
1939 - PCU SCULPIN (SS-191) commissioned USS SCULPIN (SS-191) at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, NH; Lt. W. D. Wilkin commanding.
1939 - PCU TAMBOR (SS-198) keel laid as TAMBOR at the Electric Boat Company, Groton, CT.
1965 - PCU KAMEHAMEHA (SSBN-642) launched at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA; sponsored by Mrs. Samuel Wilder King, widow of Captain King, who was governor of Hawaii from 1953 to 1957.
1971 - PCU ARCHERFISH (SSN-678) launched at the Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, CT; sponsored by Miss Mary Conover Warner.
1982 - five U.S. Navy personnel died in a diving accident aboard USS GRAYBACK (SS-574) off the coast of Subic Bay, P.I.
1982 - USS BONEFISH (SS-582) engine room flooding event.
2004 - USS MEMPHIS (SSN-691) returned to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, CT from a recent deployment in support of various missions including Operation Iraqi Freedom. More than 200 friends and family members braved subzero temperatures to welcome the crew home.
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These are events for all United States Navy commissioned and some noncommissioned submarines and submersibles.
Sources of major events are at least double verified or the entry doesn't make the cut.
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