USN · SS
Cavalla
Photos and infoGato-class submarine. The name is the fish. Electric Boat, Groton. Commissioned 29 February 1944. On her first patrol, 19 June 1944, she sank Shokaku in the Philippine Sea. She was not sunk. She is a museum ship at Galveston.
| Class | Gato class |
|---|---|
| Type | Submarine (SS) |
| Hull | SS-244 |
| Builder | Electric Boat, Groton |
| Launched | 1943-11-14 |
| Commissioned | 1944-02-29 |
| Fate | Afloat. Survived the war. On 19 June 1944 she sank Shokaku. Decommissioned 3 June 1968. Struck 30 December 1969. Museum ship at Seawolf Park, Galveston. This is SS-244. The later hull numbers SSK-244 and AGSS-244 are the same boat. |
| Armament (class) | Fleet submarine. A deck gun forward of the conning tower. |
Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.
USS Cavalla (SS-244) on the surface in 1945. The hull number 244 is on the conning tower. U.S. Navy photograph. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The pictures on this page are the originals.
No color version yet. Colored pictures and film will be added here.
Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944-06-19 · torpedoed Shokaku; not sunk
