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U.S.S. CONGER
(SS-477)Click to view crew list
USS CONGER (SS-477) - a Tench-class submarine
In Commission 1945 to 1963SS-477 Deployments - Major Events
| Add a SS-477 Shellback Initiation | Add a SS-477 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
| Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JUL | 1944 | - | Keel Date: 11 JUL 1944 at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Kittery ME | ||
| OCT | 1944 | - | Launch Date: 17 OCT 1944 | ||
| FEB | 1945 | - | Commissioned: 14 FEB 1945 | ||
| SEP | 1947 | - | Shellback Initiation - 9 SEP 1947 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
| APR | 1961 | - | AUG | 1961 | Mediterranean |
| JUL | 1963 | - | Decommissioned: 29 JUL 1963 | ||
SS-477 General Specifications
Class: Tench-class submarine
Complement: 10 Officers and 71 Enlisted
Displacement: 1570 tons
Length: 311 feet 8 inches
Beam: 27 feet 4 inches
Draft: 17 feet 0 in
Range: 11 000 Nautical Miles
Final Disposition: Sold for scrap 9 July 1964
USS CONGER (SS-477)
Conger (SS-477) was launched 17 October 1944 by Portsmouth Naval Shipyard; sponsored by Mrs. W. C. Ploeser; and commissioned 14 February 1945 Lieutenant Commander H. D. Sipple in command.
Conger tested new submarine equipment at New London until she cleared 21 July 1945 for Pacific service. At sea between Balboa and Pearl Harbor upon the end of hostilities she was ordered back to the Canal Zone and on 4 September arrived at Key West to provide services to the Fleet Sonar School until 6 December. She sailed then for New London and Tompkinsville N.Y. where she lay until sailing 10 January 1946 for her assigned home port at Cristobal C.Z.
Conger
operated in the Caribbean
calling at Memphis
Tenn.
and Vicksburg
Miss.
in May 1947
until 23 August
when she
sailed for a complete circuit of the South American continent on
special hydrographic work
passing through the Straits of Magellan.
She returned to the Canal Zone 5 October to resume her Caribbean
operations
and from 11 January 1948 made her base at Key West. On 3
June 1949 her home port became Norfolk
Va.
and she operated along
the east coast and in the Caribbean assisting in the training of
surface ships
taking part in fleet exercises
and perfecting her own
readiness for action. She was again transferred in 1952
arriving at
New London
her new home port
12 December. From that time through
1960
she continued her east coast operations
and frequently put to
sea with student submariners on board.
[Note: The above USS CONGER (SS-477) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS CONGER (SS-477) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]