March 2021 Volume 22, Issue 03 Lest We Forget — Inside This Issue: Meeting minutes 2 “The USSVI Submariner’s Creed” Lost Boats 4 To perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who Undersea Warfare Hist 4 gave their lives in the pursuit of their duties while Harpoon missiles return 5 serving their country. That their dedication, deeds, Oddly shaped Grayback 6 and supreme sacrifice be a constant source of Allied vs. Russian boats 8 motivation toward greater accomplishments. Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of Contact information 9 America and its Constitution. Application form 10 News Brief 1. Next Meeting: Restrictions on group gatherings related to Coronavirus have caused a temporary suspension of our monthly meetings. March 20 – VIRTUAL April 17 - PLAN FOR KSC, MASKS, SOCIAL DISTANCING, TAKE YOUR OWN LUNCH 2. Duty Cook Roster: a. GET READY TO VOLUNTEER WHEN OUR MEETINGS RESUME. 3. March Birthdays: Chris Gaines 13th; Tom Oker 17th; John Lindstedt 17th; and Richard Smiskol 26th. Happy Birthday Shipmates! 4. Crash Dive has a few openings where you can showcase your skills while serving your shipmates. Can you see yourself as our Chaplain, Community Outreach Chair, Membership Chair, Charitable Giving Chair, or Vice-Commander? Contact Clay Hill to step-up. 5. Give a little something that can mean a lot: A $2.50 contribution gets a cup of coffee-plus a message of encouragement-to a randomly selected, active duty service member. To donate: Go to https://GreenBeansCoffee.com ...then click on "Cup of Joe for a Joe.". Crash Dive Meeting Minutes - Bret will attach February 20, 2021 newsletter to email Membership – Chris Gaines 1. Call to Order@ 1108 - 22 from before, 2 added: 24 active total. - 5 postal lifetime a. The following submarines were members, and 8 lost during the month of unconfirmed/unheard February: from USS Barbel (SS-316) 04 Feb 1945 - Phone tree to be USS Shark I (SS-174) 11 Feb 1942 explored at staff meeting USS (SS-219) 16 Feb 1943 - Any news on Larry? Amberjack Centerpieces, also? Still USS Grayback (SS-208) 27 Feb 1944 need info on both. USS Trout (SS-202) 29 Feb 1944 - Adding verbiage to notices to assist with 2. Attendance: hardships/technical 1) Frank Voznak challenges. 2) Bret Zacher - Zoom meetings can be 3) Chris Gaines connected to on 4) Scott Jaklin smartphone. 5) Manny Garmendez - Waived dues for 2021. 6) Dick Anderson Sent notice to members 7) Clay Hill paid in advance. 3. Reports: - Charlie Kruger? Phone a. Secretary’s Report disconnected at last - Admin ongoing, catching attempt. No info from up. Scott/Great Lakes Base. b. Treasurer’s Report[ABSENT], Obituary found Feb 2019, Report forwarded by Clay possible match. Wrong - Crash Dive Checking middle initial. 4223.29, 11073.69 Community Outreach – Bret - Memorial Checking Zacher 23582.51, Savings$5.00 - Turnover with Greg for - $5000.00 reserved for Vice Commander ongoing signage; Checks sent to - Liaison for Operation Chicago Base $9293.76, Drydock not withdrawn yet. Hospitality – Bret Zacher c. Committee Reports - Larry has items in his Newsletter – Chris Gaines basement. - Newsletter notice to be - Clay says KSC wants to sent when available on keep us there, if possible. website Webmaster – Frank Voznak, - Latest edition uploaded Jr. today - No report Page 2 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL Storekeeper – ABSENT Roster UPDATED: 24 active + Herman Mueller (Eternal 5 lifetime members Patrol Medallions?) b. Cobia Drydocking - Ordering 5 new Status of medallions Museum/AirBnB/Meeting Procedures – Chris Gaines Space - Staff meeting before - Bret has info from turnover March TBD with Greg. Fundraising - Bret teaches custom efforts halted except background tutorial donations. Eagle Scout – Ted Rotzoll - Clay will still attempt to ABSENT - No report reach museum staff. Memorial Committee – Frank - Boat is open by appointment Voznak, Jr. due to COVID - Back in touch with Alternative fundraising. Michelle Instead of donation box, - Adding plaque with start petition or letter writing “Clay’s Map”; placement campaign on waterfront or south o List of companies to side reach out to for - Michelle requests 3 charitable/PR quotes for signage, and opportunities may be willing to share o Len has info for cost GoFundMe alternative, - No design specifications please send to Bret yet, still in planning - Discuss at staff - Rededication ceremony meeting on 13 Mar before Memorial Day, if 21. possible 5. New Business - Veteran’s Day in a. Location of centerpieces: November, maybe better searching bin @ KSC deadline for ceremony? - Glen will contact Janelle to 4. Old (Unfinished) Business determine location a. Membership Dues 6. Good of the Order Collections status: any - Great Lakes had first ZOOM stragglers/alibis/unspent meeting with help from rounds? Bret. - Addressed in - Explore bringing Membership report. centerpieces to USSVI Emails/snail mail/phone convention in Orlando calls; checking health of a. Duty Cook – Not applicable members not in contact. b. 786 Club – “How to Join?” - Will explore at staff - Paragraph added to meeting. newsletter. Modest Page 3 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL initiation fee 200 + 100/yr March 7, 1945 - USS Rock (SS-274) : At with reductions for the start of her 6th war patrol, she additional family picked up 15 merchant seamen, adrift in a 7. SOUND Klaxon life raft for 32 days, and landed a. Next Meeting is 20 March them at Exmouth. 2021 @ KSC unless March 8, 1961 - USS Patrick Henry (SSBN- prevented from gathering 599) : When Patrick Henry surfaced off Need to discuss logistics Holy Loch, Scotland, she had set a record (access, food, etc.) for her type, cruising submerged 66 days 8. Adjourn. 1207 and 22 hours. March 11, 1945 | USS Segundo sank the cargo ship Shori Maru. Lost Boats March 12, 1945 | USS Perch (SS-313) : Perch departed Fremantle on her 5th war USS Perch (SS 176) 3/3/42 patrol, carrying 11 Australian specialists USS Grampus (SS 207) 3/5/43 trained in commando warfare. In the USS H-1 (SS 28) 3/12/20 Makassar Straits, she contacted a coastal freighter. Using gunfire, Perch sank the USS Triton (SS 201) 3/15/43 freighter. USS Kete (SS 369) 3/20/45 March 13, 1945 | USS Crevalle (SS-291) : Crevalle put to sea on her 6th war patrol USS S-4 (SS 23) 3/25/15 from Pearl Harbor, HI. Cruising in the East USS Tullibee (SS 284) 3/26/44 China Sea, she took up a lifeguard station USS Trigger (SS 237) 3/26/45 during air strikes preparing for the Okinawa invasion. March 14, 1956 | USS Barbero (SS-317) : Undersea Warfare History Barbero fired her first “Regulus” successfully from a point off San March 1, 1959 – USS Harder (SS-568) Clemente Island. Her second shot came Harder participated in SUBICEX during off equally well two weeks later. which she cruised 280 miles beneath the March 15, 1945 | USS Spot (SS-413) : On ice packs off Newfoundland, further than the second night in her assigned patrol any conventionally powered submarine area, Spot expended all torpedoes had previously gone. attacking a Japanese convoy. Spot sank March 4, 1944 - USS Tinosa (SS-283) : the passenger cargo ship, Nanking Maru, Tinosa ended her 5th war patrol at and damaged a freighter. The attack was Pearl Harbor, HI. made in heavy weather and shallow March 5, 1966 - USS Capitaine (SS-336) : water. Transferred (loaned) to Italy, 5 March March 16, 1944 | USS Silversides (SS 236) 1966, where she was recommissioned in sank the cargo ship Kofuku Maru. the Italian Navy as Alfredo Cappellini (S- March 17, 1959 | USS Skate (SSN 578) 507). becomes the first submarine to surface March 6, 1982 - USS Atlanta (SSN-712) : at the North Pole, traveling 3,000 miles Commissioned with CDR Robin J. White in in and under Arctic ice for more than a command. month. Page 4 Crash Dive Base Rondout - Lake Bluff, IL They’re Back: US Subs To continue to develop “ready, forward- deployed naval forces [which] will accept Carry Harpoon Ship- calculated tactical risks and adopt a more assertive posture in our day-to-day Killer Missiles Paul McLeary, Breaking Defense, February 10 operations.” The work began to pay off in the WASHINGTON: After a 25-year absence, fielding of the over-the-horizon Naval Strike the Navy will start packing Harpoon ship- Missile, made by a team made up of killer missiles on its attack submarines as the Raytheon and Norway-based Kongsberg. fleet looks for new ways to counter the The weapon, with a range of about 100 miles growing Chinese navy. (roughly comparable to the Harpoon), has The effort falls in line with a range of been deployed aboard the Littoral Combat programs the Pentagon is pursuing to Ship USS Gabrielle Giffords, and will develop ways to deploy more offensive punch become a mainstay aboard the Constellation- at longer ranges, a clear recognition of the class frigates which begin construction this growing ability of China and Russia to keep year. American and allied forces at a distance in The entire fleet of more than 30 any potential confrontation. Littoral Combat Ships will eventually be The Harpoon work was capped off equipped with the NSM, Navy CNO Adm. late last month when the Navy awarded Mike Gilday told Breaking Defense recently. Boeing a $10 million contract to arm Los “In today’s competitive space with Angeles-class attack subs with the new China, in particular, you need lethal systems Harpoons as soon as this year. The contract like the Naval Strike Missile on every single follows the successful test firing of a and every single LCS that we have. And so in Harpoon from the USS Olympia submarine order to and so, I do want those ships during the RIMPAC 2018 exercise off the deployed in numbers,” Gilday said.