USN · SS

Halibut

Afloat

Gato-class submarine, SS-232. The name is the flatfish. Portsmouth Navy Yard. Launched 3 December 1941, commissioned 10 April 1942, Commander Philip H. Ross. On 5 November 1943 she torpedoed Junyo near the Bungo Strait. The carrier was damaged and not sunk. On 14 November 1944, Lieutenant Commander Ignatius J. Galantin in command, aircraft and escorts depth-charged her in Luzon Strait. She was not sunk. The damage was not worth repairing. Decommissioned 18 July 1945 and sold for scrap on 10 January 1947. This is not the later guided-missile submarine.

Class	Gato class
Type	Submarine (SS)
Hull	SS-232
Builder	Portsmouth Navy Yard
Launched	1941-12-03
Commissioned	1942-04-10
Fate	Afloat. Torpedoed Junyo on 5 November 1943. The carrier was damaged and not sunk. On 14 November 1944 aircraft and escorts depth-charged her in Luzon Strait. She reached Saipan. The damage was not worth repairing. Decommissioned 18 July 1945. Struck 8 May 1946. Sold for scrap on 10 January 1947. This is SS-232, not the later guided-missile submarine.
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.

Halibut (SS-232) at her launching, Portsmouth Navy Yard, 3 December 1941. The hull number 232 is on the bow and on the conning tower. National Archives photograph, via the Digital Public Library of America and Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. This is SS-232, not the later guided-missile submarine.

The pictures on this page are the originals.