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Narwhal

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TypeSubmarine (SS)
HullSS-167
FateAfloat. Stationed between Midway and Hawaii, and not in the carrier fight. Decommissioned 23 April 1945. Struck 19 May 1945. Sold for scrap on 16 November 1945. This is SS-167.

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

Narwhal
U.S. Navy. USS Narwhal (SS-167) underway in 1931, still wearing her old number V-5. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

USS Narwhal (SS-167) was a submarine of the United States Navy. On 7 December 1941 she was in Pearl Harbor when the harbor was attacked. She was not sunk.

On 4 June 1942, during the Battle of Midway, she was stationed between Midway and Hawaii as a backstop. She was not in the carrier fight. Narwhal survived the war. She was decommissioned on 23 April 1945 and struck on 19 May 1945. She was sold for scrap on 16 November 1945. The hull in this account is SS-167.

The pictures on this page are the originals.