Ships built in Vallejo, California

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 148. Chapters: USS Stickleback, USS Tunny, USS Wahoo, USS San Francisco, USS Whale, USS Trigger, USS Zane, USS Silversides, USS Tang, USS Nautilus, USS Tinosa, USS Smith, USS Sturgeon, USS Tiru, USS California, USS Trepang, USS Drum, USS Pompano, USS Langley, USS Tilefish, USS Swordfish, USS Tuna, USS Gudgeon, USS Wintle, USS Trever, USS Seahorse, USS Wileman, USS Hamilton, USS Burden R. Hastings, USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Sunfish, USS Wasmuth, USS Spadefish, USS Tisdale, USS Tacoma, USS Tullibee, USS Sargo, USS Spot, USS Springer, USS Skate, USS Chicago, USS Halibut, USS Admiral C. F. Hughes, USS Sederstrom, USS Fairfax, USS Sioux, USS Ward, USS Scamp, USS Gilmore, USS Perry, USS Sperry, USS Rall, USS Woodrow Wilson, USS Grayback, USS Whitman, USS Kamehameha, USS Preston, USS Guitarro, USS Prometheus, USS Decatur, USS Maumee, USS Fulton, USS Stonewall Jackson, USS Plunger, USS Kanawha, USS Kilty, USS Hawkbill, USS Manlove, USS LeHardy, USS Halloran, USS Saginaw, USS Austin, USS Howard W. Gilmore, USS Henley, USS Litchfield, USS Nereus, USS Mariano G. Vallejo, USS Claxton, USS Harold C. Thomas, USS Stadtfeld, USS Taylor, USS Lyman, USS Bushnell, USS Fleming, USS Andrew Jackson, USS Dempsey, USS Palos, USS Bluebird, USS Charles R. Greer, USS Lake, USC&GS McArthur, USS Shaw, USS Cuyama, USS Daniel Boone, USS Martin, USS Finnegan, USS Monocacy, USS Crowley, USS Bass, USS Gurnard, USS Edward C. Daly, USS Emery, USS Creamer, USS Doherty, USS Bonita, USS Permit, USS Boggs, USS Eisele, USS Brennan, USS Connolly, USS Monadnock, USS Edgar G. Chase, USS Kennison, USS SC-277, USS Delbert W. Halsey, USS Wahneta, USS Caldwell, USS Duffy, USS Ely, USS Pawtucket, USC&GS Cosmos, USS Cormorant, USS Keppler, USS William C. Lawe, USS Lloyd Thomas, USS Willard Keith, USS Narkeeta. Excerpt: The USS Tunny (SS/SSG/APSS/LPSS-282) was a Gato-class submarine which saw service in World War II and in the Vietnam War. Tunny received nine battle stars and two Presidential Unit Citations for her World War II service and five battle stars for her operations during the Vietnam War. Tunny was the first submarine of the United States Navy to be named for the tunny, any of several oceanic fishes resembling the mackerel, and her keel was laid down on 10 November 1941 at Vallejo, California, by the Mare Island Navy Yard. She was launched on 30 June 1942 sponsored by Mrs. Frederick G. Crisp, and commissioned on 1 September 1942 with Lieutenant Commander Elton Watters Grenfell in command. Following shakedown training out of California ports, Tunny arrived in the Hawaiian Islands on 12 December 1942. After an additional week of training and two weeks of availability, she got underway from Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, on 12 January 1943 for her first war patrol. For nearly a week, rough seas hampered the progress of the submarine. Then, as she approached the Ryukyu Islands, sea traffic increased. Sightings of sampans became frequent, and Tunny often dove to avoid detection by suspicious-looking trawlers. At 05:30 on 26 January, Tunny sighted masts and a stack over the horizon indicating a possible target. During the day, she lessened the distance between herself and her quarry; and, near dusk, she closed a 400-ton trawler. Finding the prey not worth a torpedo, the submarine surfaced and opened fire with her deck gun. Soon, darkness forced her to discontinue the attack, and she continued on her way. On 29 January, she began patrolling off Formosa. An...