GAR USS (SS-206)
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 7:46 pm
Built as a submarine under yard no 39 by Electric Boat Comp., Groton, Conn. For the USA Navy.
27 December 1939 laid down.
27 November 1940 launched as USS GAR (SS-211), christened by Mrs Pettengill, wife of Rear Admiral Pettengil, the submarine was named after any of certain fishes having an elongate pike-like body and long, narrow jaw.
Displacement 1,499 ton surfaced, 2,410 ton submerged, dim. 93.62 x 8.31 x 4.45m. (draught surface)
Powered by four General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines, driving electric generators, 5,400 shp surfaced, twin shafts, speed 20.4 knots. Four high speed general Electric electric motors with reduction gears, 2,740 shp, speed 8.75 knots, submerged.
Range: by a speed of 10 knots, 11,000 mile surface, submerged 48 hours by a speed of 2 knots.
Test depth 76 metre.
Armament: 10 – 21 inch torpedo tubes, 6 forward, 4 aft, carried 24 torpedoes.
1 – 3 inch deck-gun, Bofors 40mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannons.
Crew 60
14 April 1941 commissioned at New London. Lieutenant D. McGregor in command
After shakedown training along the New England seaboard from Portsmouth,
N.H., and New London, Conn., GAR departed New London 24 November and
transited the Panama Canal 3 December 1941 enroute to San Diego, where
she arrived 3 days after the Pearl Harbor attack. She prepared for
combat in the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, then departed San Francisco 15
January 1942 for Pearl Harbor. Her maiden patrol (2 February-28 March)
was conducted around Nagoya and the Kii Channel entrance to the Inland
Sea of Japan. She torpedoed and sank the 1,520 ton cargo ship CHICHIUBU
MARU 13 March. During her second war patrol (19 April-8 June), she
scored hits on a freighter off Kwajalein atoll and a submarine decoy "Q-
ship" west of Truk atoll, then terminated her patrol at Fremantle, Australia. Her third war patrol (3 July-21 August) took her to the South China Sea and the Gulf of Siam, where her only contact was a hospital ship. Her fourth war patrol (17 September-7 November) took her to the northernmost waters in the Gulf of Siam, where on 19 October she laid 32 mines in the entrances to Bangkok.
This was one of the strategic plants covering important Japanese
shipping lanes previously patrolled by American submarines.
GAR'S fifth, sixth and seventh war patrols were conducted largely in
approaches to Manila, Philippine Islands, via Borneo. During her fifth
(28 November-19 January 1943) she drove freighter HEINAN MARU on the
beach with six torpedo hits and scored hits on a seaplane tender. Her
sixth (9 February-2 April) brought numerous contacts with targets which
could not be closed to firing range because of vigilant enemy aircraft
and antisubmarine patrol ships. During her seventh war patrol (23 April-
27 May 1943), she sank five small craft with gunfire; torpedoed and sank
703-ton Japanese freighter ASO MARU south of the Negros Islands 9 May,
then 6 days later attacked a convoy west of Mindoro, sinking 3,197-ton
passenger-cargo ship MCIKAI MARU and 4,361-ton INDUS MARU.
Her eighth war patrol (18 June 23 July) was spent patrolling the Flores
Sea, where she torpedoed a 500-ton motor ship which ran itself aground,
the crew escaping into the jungle. En route from Fremantle to Pearl
Harbor on her ninth war patrol (8 August-13 September), GAR scouted off
Timor and scored hits on a freighter in Makassar Strait. Routed onward
for overhaul in the Mare Island Navy Yard, she returned to Pearl Harbor
30 November 1943 to resume combat patrols in the Pacific.
The 10th war patrol of GAR (16 December 1943-9 February 1944) was
conducted off Palau, where on 20 January she sank the 5,325-ton cargo
ship KOYU MARU; damaged two ships of another convoy on the 22d; then
attacked a third convoy the following day to sink the 3,670-ton TAIAN
MARU. Her 11th war patrol (3 March-21 April) found her performing
lifeguard duty for aviators making the first carrier-based air strikes
on Palau. She saved eight aviators, one less than 2 miles off the beach
and within range of enemy gun emplacements. Her 12th war patrol (20 May-
5 July) was spent in the Bonin Islands area, where she made gunfire
attacks on a convoy of Japanese sea trucks, leaving a small freighter
raging in flames and dead in the water. Her 13th war patrol (14 August-9
October) was largely taken up with lifeguard duty off Yap supporting the
combined fleet-shore operations that captured the Palaus. She also
performed valuable reconnaissance work off Surigao Strait. She bombarded
installations on Yap 6 through 8 September and ended her patrol at
Brisbane, Australia.
On her 14th war patrol (3-30 November), GAR landed 16 men and 25 tons of
supplies at Santiago Cove, Luzon Philippine Islands, 23 November; picked
up intelligence documents, and terminated her patrol in Mios Woendi
lagoon. On her 15th and final war patrol (4-27 December), she landed 35
tons of supplies on the west coast of Luzon, near Duriagaos Inlet 11
December, returning to Pearl Harbor with urgent intelligence documents
including maps locating enemy gun emplacements, beach defenses, troop
concentrations, and fuel and ammunition dumps on Luzon.
After overhaul in the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, GAR put to sea 2
April 1945 to serve the remainder of the war as a target trainer for
antisubmarine ships at Saipan and Guam, Marianas Islands. She departed
Apra Harbor, Guam, 7 August 1945, proceeding via Hawaii, San Francisco,
and the Panama Canal to Portsmouth, N.H., where she arrived 20 October.
She decommissioned there 11 December 1945 and remained in reserve until
September-October 1948 during which time she was overhauled in the
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for service as a reserve training submarine
for the 4th Naval District at Cleveland, Ohio, arriving, via the
Mississippi River and the Chicago Canal, 28 November 1948. She continued
her reserve training until her name was stricken from the Navy List 29
May 1959. The submarine was sold for scrapping 18 November 1959 to Acme
Scrap Iron and Metal Co.
GAR received 11 battle stars for service in World War II.
http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/submar/ss206.txt
Palau 2015 65c sg?. scott?
27 December 1939 laid down.
27 November 1940 launched as USS GAR (SS-211), christened by Mrs Pettengill, wife of Rear Admiral Pettengil, the submarine was named after any of certain fishes having an elongate pike-like body and long, narrow jaw.
Displacement 1,499 ton surfaced, 2,410 ton submerged, dim. 93.62 x 8.31 x 4.45m. (draught surface)
Powered by four General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines, driving electric generators, 5,400 shp surfaced, twin shafts, speed 20.4 knots. Four high speed general Electric electric motors with reduction gears, 2,740 shp, speed 8.75 knots, submerged.
Range: by a speed of 10 knots, 11,000 mile surface, submerged 48 hours by a speed of 2 knots.
Test depth 76 metre.
Armament: 10 – 21 inch torpedo tubes, 6 forward, 4 aft, carried 24 torpedoes.
1 – 3 inch deck-gun, Bofors 40mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannons.
Crew 60
14 April 1941 commissioned at New London. Lieutenant D. McGregor in command
After shakedown training along the New England seaboard from Portsmouth,
N.H., and New London, Conn., GAR departed New London 24 November and
transited the Panama Canal 3 December 1941 enroute to San Diego, where
she arrived 3 days after the Pearl Harbor attack. She prepared for
combat in the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, then departed San Francisco 15
January 1942 for Pearl Harbor. Her maiden patrol (2 February-28 March)
was conducted around Nagoya and the Kii Channel entrance to the Inland
Sea of Japan. She torpedoed and sank the 1,520 ton cargo ship CHICHIUBU
MARU 13 March. During her second war patrol (19 April-8 June), she
scored hits on a freighter off Kwajalein atoll and a submarine decoy "Q-
ship" west of Truk atoll, then terminated her patrol at Fremantle, Australia. Her third war patrol (3 July-21 August) took her to the South China Sea and the Gulf of Siam, where her only contact was a hospital ship. Her fourth war patrol (17 September-7 November) took her to the northernmost waters in the Gulf of Siam, where on 19 October she laid 32 mines in the entrances to Bangkok.
This was one of the strategic plants covering important Japanese
shipping lanes previously patrolled by American submarines.
GAR'S fifth, sixth and seventh war patrols were conducted largely in
approaches to Manila, Philippine Islands, via Borneo. During her fifth
(28 November-19 January 1943) she drove freighter HEINAN MARU on the
beach with six torpedo hits and scored hits on a seaplane tender. Her
sixth (9 February-2 April) brought numerous contacts with targets which
could not be closed to firing range because of vigilant enemy aircraft
and antisubmarine patrol ships. During her seventh war patrol (23 April-
27 May 1943), she sank five small craft with gunfire; torpedoed and sank
703-ton Japanese freighter ASO MARU south of the Negros Islands 9 May,
then 6 days later attacked a convoy west of Mindoro, sinking 3,197-ton
passenger-cargo ship MCIKAI MARU and 4,361-ton INDUS MARU.
Her eighth war patrol (18 June 23 July) was spent patrolling the Flores
Sea, where she torpedoed a 500-ton motor ship which ran itself aground,
the crew escaping into the jungle. En route from Fremantle to Pearl
Harbor on her ninth war patrol (8 August-13 September), GAR scouted off
Timor and scored hits on a freighter in Makassar Strait. Routed onward
for overhaul in the Mare Island Navy Yard, she returned to Pearl Harbor
30 November 1943 to resume combat patrols in the Pacific.
The 10th war patrol of GAR (16 December 1943-9 February 1944) was
conducted off Palau, where on 20 January she sank the 5,325-ton cargo
ship KOYU MARU; damaged two ships of another convoy on the 22d; then
attacked a third convoy the following day to sink the 3,670-ton TAIAN
MARU. Her 11th war patrol (3 March-21 April) found her performing
lifeguard duty for aviators making the first carrier-based air strikes
on Palau. She saved eight aviators, one less than 2 miles off the beach
and within range of enemy gun emplacements. Her 12th war patrol (20 May-
5 July) was spent in the Bonin Islands area, where she made gunfire
attacks on a convoy of Japanese sea trucks, leaving a small freighter
raging in flames and dead in the water. Her 13th war patrol (14 August-9
October) was largely taken up with lifeguard duty off Yap supporting the
combined fleet-shore operations that captured the Palaus. She also
performed valuable reconnaissance work off Surigao Strait. She bombarded
installations on Yap 6 through 8 September and ended her patrol at
Brisbane, Australia.
On her 14th war patrol (3-30 November), GAR landed 16 men and 25 tons of
supplies at Santiago Cove, Luzon Philippine Islands, 23 November; picked
up intelligence documents, and terminated her patrol in Mios Woendi
lagoon. On her 15th and final war patrol (4-27 December), she landed 35
tons of supplies on the west coast of Luzon, near Duriagaos Inlet 11
December, returning to Pearl Harbor with urgent intelligence documents
including maps locating enemy gun emplacements, beach defenses, troop
concentrations, and fuel and ammunition dumps on Luzon.
After overhaul in the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, GAR put to sea 2
April 1945 to serve the remainder of the war as a target trainer for
antisubmarine ships at Saipan and Guam, Marianas Islands. She departed
Apra Harbor, Guam, 7 August 1945, proceeding via Hawaii, San Francisco,
and the Panama Canal to Portsmouth, N.H., where she arrived 20 October.
She decommissioned there 11 December 1945 and remained in reserve until
September-October 1948 during which time she was overhauled in the
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for service as a reserve training submarine
for the 4th Naval District at Cleveland, Ohio, arriving, via the
Mississippi River and the Chicago Canal, 28 November 1948. She continued
her reserve training until her name was stricken from the Navy List 29
May 1959. The submarine was sold for scrapping 18 November 1959 to Acme
Scrap Iron and Metal Co.
GAR received 11 battle stars for service in World War II.
http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/submar/ss206.txt
Palau 2015 65c sg?. scott?