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U.S.S. SIRAGO
(SS-485)FIGHTER FEEDER SQUADRON LEADER
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USS SIRAGO (SS-485) - a Tench-class submarine
In Commission 1945 to 1972SS-485 Deployments - Major Events
Add a SS-485 Shellback Initiation | Add a SS-485 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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JAN | 1945 | - | Keel Date: 3 JAN 1945 at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Kittery ME | ||
MAY | 1945 | - | Launch Date: 11 MAY 1945 | ||
AUG | 1945 | - | Commissioned: 13 AUG 1945 | ||
DEC | 1965 | - | DEC | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
NOV | 1966 | - | NOV | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
MAY | 1967 | - | SEP | 1967 | North Atlantic |
JUN | 1972 | - | Decommissioned: 1 JUN 1972 |
SS-485 General Specifications
Class: Tench-class submarine
Complement: 10 Officers and 71 Enlisted
Displacement: 1870 tons
Length: 307 feet
Beam: 27 feet 4 inches
Draft: 17 feet
Range: 15 000 Nautical Miles
Final Disposition: Sold for scrap 2 May 1973
USS SIRAGO (SS-485)
Sirago (SS-485) was laid down on 4
January 1945 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H.; launched on 13
May 1945; sponsored by Mrs. L. Mendel Rivers; and commissioned on 13
August 1945, Comdr. F. J. Harlfinger, II, in command.
Commissioned
at the end of World War II, Sirago conducted her shakedown cruise off
the east coast and in the Caribbean during
the fall of 1945. After shakedown, she joined Submarine Squadron (SubRon) 8 at
New London; and, in January 1946, she
proceeded to Provincetown, Mass.,
where she participated in the destruction of two German submarines. On returning to New London, Sirago commenced duties which included training services for the Submarine School and for the fleet's
destroyer force; experimental
exercises to evaluate new techniques and
equipment; type training; and fleet exercises which took her from Davis Strait into the Caribbean. In
December 1948, she entered the
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for a GUPPY II conversion; and, on 25 July 1949,
she left the yard for Norfolk where,
as a modernized high-speed attack
submarine, she joined SubRon 6.
Attached to SubRon 6 for the next twenty-two years, Sirago's primary
mission was antisubmarine warfare. Secondary missions included
antishipping warfare, intelligence gathering, and the provision of services
for research and development studies. Those duties, during the
1950's, continued to see her operating primarily in the
western Atlantic as she participated in exercises with others
of her ASW group; in fleet exercises; in joint Candian-United States
exercises; and in NATO exercises, which took her into the eastern Atlantic and
North Sea areas.
During the 1950's, she also deployed to the Mediterranean
where she operated as a unit of the 6th Fleet from September to November
1951 and from September to December 1954.
In October 1962, Sirago entered the Norfolk Naval
Shipyard for another extensive overhaul which included the
installation of a fiberglass superstructure and sail, and, in
the spring of 1963, she resumed operations with her ASW group, Task Group
"ALFA." That fall, she deployed to the Middle East for
CENTO exercise "MID-LINK VI"; but, during the remainder of the
1960's and into the 1970's, her operations were similar to those of the
1950's.
On 1
July 1971, Sirago was reassigned to SubRon 12 at Key West; but, less than four months later, on 15 October, she was ordered back to Norfolk where she
rejoined SubRon 6. She remained in that squadron until decommissioned on 1 June 1972. Struck from the Navy
list on the same day, she was turned over to the Naval Ships Systems Command
and sold for scrapping to the Jacob-son
Metal Co., Chesapeake, Va., on 2 May 1973.
[Note: The above USS SIRAGO (SS-485) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS SIRAGO (SS-485), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]