UNITED STATES SUBMARINE VETERANS INCORPORTATED PALMETTO BASE NEWSLETTER December 2013
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OUR CREED: To perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who gave their lives in the pursuit of duties while serving their country. That their dedication, deeds, and supreme sacrifice be a constant source of motivation toward greater accomplishments. Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of America and its constitution. UNITED STATES SUBMARINE VETERANS INCORPORTATED PALMETTO BASE NEWSLETTER December 2013 1 Lost Boats 3 Picture of the Month 11 Featured World War II Submarine Commanding Officer of the Month 12 CO’s Stateroom 17 XO’S Stateroom 20 Members 21 Honorary Members 21 Meeting Attendees 22 Old Business 23 New Business 23 Good of the Order 23 Base Contacts 24 Birthdays 24 Welcome 24 Binnacle List 24 Quote of the Month 24 Word of the Month 24 Member Profile of the Month 25 Traditions of the Naval Service 28 Dates in U.S. Naval History 29 U.S. Submarine History 35 Submarine Memorials 55 Monthly Calendar 56 Submarine Trivia 57 Advertising Partners 58 2 USS Capelin (SS-289) Lost on: Lost on Dec 2, 1943 with the loss of 76 men. She was on her 1st war patrol, but her exact location and cause of loss remain a mystery. She may have 12/2/1943 been lost to mines or an operational casualty. US Navy Official Photo NavSource.org Class: SS 285 Commissioned: 6/4/1943 Launched: 1/20/1943 Builder: Portsmouth Navy Yard Length: 312 , Beam: 27 #Officers: 10 , #Enlisted: 71 Fate: Lost in the Celebes Sea, on her 2nd patrol, with 78 men lost.Cause of loss unknown. NavSource.org 3 Crew Listing S2 Buford Young Arney F1 John Leo Lutley SM2 Clarence Monroe Ball TM3 John Wesley Maddox TMC Claude Iziah, Jr. Beck EM1 Alfred Madey EM3 Gerald Ralph Blair CDR (CO) Elliot Eugene Marshall QM3 Perry Carr Bragg LCDR William Barton, Jr. Mason LT(jg) Richard Lindsay Britton S1 George Robert Melvin S1 Ellis Samuel, Jr. Brown TM2 Otto Frederick Moeller RMC Marcy Horner Butler RM1 Henry Frank Morgan YNC Foster Thomas Callahan MM3 Elmer Andrew Norris MoMM2 John Joseph, Jr. Callahan EM1 Cyril Robert Novotny S1 Joseph Peter Cavanaugh RM3 Melvin Bernard O'Donnell StM1 Earl Cheatham MoMM1 Stanley Roderick Olsen TM2 Everett Ray Clifford TM2 Thomas Earl O'Neal TM1 Charles William Colyer LT(jg) Clinton Frank O'Neil MM1 Joe Lawrence Cross StM2 Finon Perry F1 James David Crowley MoMM1 Herman Elroy, Jr. Pettigrew EM3 Charles Francis DeFreytas RT2 William Norwood Pilkinton TM3 William Francis Devine MoMM1 Richard Powell TM2 William John Devine MoMM1 William Edward Raminski TM3 Paul Lee Dill MoMM2 John Edgar, Jr. Rhodes FC3 Lester Theodore Eklund MoMM1 Claude William Roberts PhM1 Charles Lowell Everhart LCDR (XO) Edward Dunbar Robertson MoMMC John Francis, Jr. Ganley LT Walter Allen Sharer MoMM2 Phillip Jearold Gillen GM1 Harry Simon SC2 Peter Grabnickas MoMM2 Leon Clinton Smith EM2 Melvin Jay Hicks RM2 Robert Lowell Smith EMC James Wilson, Jr. Holt S1 Edward John Smolenski MM3 Dick Jacobs F2 Norman William Snyder TM3 Loyle Oliver Keaton MoMM2 Walter William Stasik EM1 Denver Guy, Jr. Kennedy TM1 Erwin Henry Steege EM2 Isidore Irving Klein EM2 Robert Glenn Stickle F2 John Walter Koziol MoMM2 Robert William Terrell EM1 Eugene James Krall TM3 Jerry Louis Thibeault S1 William Alfred Lafferty LT Roy Charles Uhlmann MoMMC Leo Allen Landres SC1 Curtis Lisbon, Jr. Vassar S1 Donald Wallace Lange S1 Charles Wesley Vaughan MoMM1 Edwin Jack Lester F1 Ernest Eugene Wellman EM2 William Mitchell Lewitt QM3 Herman Henry, Jr. Winkler 4 USS Sealion (SS-195) Lost on: Lost on Dec 10, 1941 with the loss of 5 men. To prevent her from falling into enemy hands, she was scuttled in Manila Bay after incurring severe 12/10/1941 bomb damage during the initial Japanese attack. US Navy Official Photo www.bcpatch.com Class: SS 194 Commissioned: 11/27/1939 Launched: 5/25/1939 Builder: Electric Boat Co (General Dynamics) Length: 311 , Beam: 27 #Officers: 5, #Enlisted: 50 Fate: The destruction of the Navy Yard made repairs impossible, and Sealion was ordered destroyed. All salvagable equipment was taken off, depth charges were placed inside, and the explosives were set off to prevent her from being made useful to the enemy. 5 Crew Listing CMM Howard Firth CEM Sterling Cecil Foster EMC Melvin Donald O'Connell MM1 Ernest Ephrom Ogilvie EM3 Vallentyne Lester Paul 6 USS F-1 / Carp (SS-20) Lost on: Lost on December 17, 1917 with the loss of 19 officers and men when it was sunk after collision with the USS F-3 (Pickerell) (SS-22) off San 12/17/1917 Clemente, CA. NavSource.org Navy Photo / NavSource.com Class: SS F Commissioned: 6/19/1912 Launched: 3/12/1912 Builder: Union Iron Works Length: 143 , Beam: 15 #Officers: 1, #Enlisted: 21 Fate: While maneuvering in exercises at sea, F-1 and F-3 collided, the former sinking in 10 seconds, her port side torn forward of the engine room. 19 of her men were lost, while 3 others were rescued by the submarines with whom NavSource.org she was operating. 7 Crew Listing John Robert Belt John Peter Albert Messang Frank Matthew Bernard Grover Edwin Metz William Lester Cartwright Ray Elsworth Scott Harry Le Roy Corson Elbert Peshine Smith James Goonan Guy Raymond Stewart Simon Greenberg Dudley Stough Edward Emerson Hall Charles Fridley Vincent Lyman Frederick Lovley Thomas Alfred Walsh Ralph Edgar McClure Clyde William Wyatt Duncan Archie McRae 8 USS S-4 (SS-109) Lost on: Lost on December 17, 1927 with the loss of 34 officers and men when it was sunk after being rammed by USCG Paulding. Salvaged in 1928 and 12/17/1927 recommissioned. US Navy Official Photo NavSource.org Class: SS S Commissioned: 11/19/1919 Launched: 8/27/1919 Builder: Portsmouth Navy Yard Length: 231 , Beam: 22 #Officers: 4, #Enlisted: 34 Fate: S-4 was destroyed by sinking. 9 Crew Listing Engineman Clarence F. Bethke Lieutenant Commander R. K. Jones (CO) Radioman Walter Bishop Electrician's Mate Paul R. Kemper Chief Engineman Earl W. Boone Fireman J. H. Long Fireman Henry H. Brown Lieutenant J. A. McGinley Seaman C. F. Burrell Engineman Fred H. O'Shields Machinist's Mate Charles B. Calcott Seaman George Pelham Chief Radioman Elmer L. Cash Coxswain John J. Powers Torpedoman's Mate Russell A. Crabb Electrician's Mate Rudolph J. Rose Machinist's Mate William Dempsey A. E. Seaton Signalman R. W. Difenbach Torpedoman's Mate Roger L. Short Machinist's Mate John J. Fenell Torpedoman's Mate Frank Snizek Lieutenant Graham N. Fitch Engineman T. W. Sternman Fireman Daniel M. Galvin Seaman Joseph L. Stevens Electrician's Mate Donald F. Goering Seaman C. B. Strange Machinist's Mate Peder Haaland Steward Mariano Tedah Commissaryman Victor Hanet Engineman Carl H. Thompson Seaman Buster Harris Seaman Walter R. Tolson Chief Machinist's Mate Aaron A. Hodges Lieutenant Donald Weller Machinist's Mate Arthur F. Hodges Fireman James J. White 10 Sealion (SS-195) off Provincetown, Massachusetts, during trials, 6 October 1939 Source: http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08250.htm 11 Featured World War II Submarine Commanding Officer of the Month Slade Cutter Slade Deville Cutter (born November 1, 1911 – June 9, 2005) was a career U.S. naval officer who was awarded four Navy Crosses and tied for second place for Japanese ships sunk in World War II. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy as an All-American American football player. Naval Academy and early naval career Originally intending to become a professional flutist, Cutter instead went to Severn School, at the time a prep school for aspiring Naval Academy applicants, and was noticed in their athletic program. Not only a football star, he was an intercollegiate boxing champion. "An all-American football player, he achieved instant fame as a first classman when he won the 1934 Army-Navy game with a first-quarter field goal. On the basis of his Academy football career, he was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Cutter graduated in 1935, served on the battleship USS Idaho (BB-42), where he coached another winning football team." Submarine duty He entered Submarine School in June 1938. By the Attack on Pearl Harbor, he had advanced to Executive Officer.[2] First wartime assignment, first "down-the-throat" shot "Cutter was the Executive Officer of USS Pompano (SS-181) under LCDR Lew Parks when she left Pearl Harbor on her first war patrol on 18 December 1941, just 11 days after the Japanese attack. Only two days out of Pearl Harbor, Pompano was sighted by a U.S. patrol plane, which attacked the friendly submarine and called in dive bombers from the nearby USS Enterprise (CV-6). Three additional near- misses ruptured Pompano' s fuel tanks and left the ship trailing an oil slick. Parks shook off his friendly pursuers and pressed on to confirm the presence of Japanese troops on Wake Island. Pompano then continued to the Marshall Islands, where she found a 16,000-ton Japanese transport at Wotje, which was attacked with four torpedoes and presumably sunk. Parks remained off Wotje for five more days 12 and eventually attacked a destroyer, but his first two torpedoes detonated early." The next two, the first "down the throat" attempted by a United States submarine, missed. After an inevitable depth-charge attack and with fuel draining relentlessly from the oil leak, Pompano returned to home base on 31 January 1942. Unfortunately, postwar analysis credited Parks with no more than possible damage to the Wotje transport. Cutter made two more war patrols as Executive Officer of Pompano , operating in the vicinity of Okinawa and Honshū, respectively.