USS Trigger (SS-237)
Service
- as Trigger31 January 1942 — 11 July 19451,260 days of the war
- Name
- USS Trigger
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-237
- Builder
- Mare Island Naval Shipyard
- Laid down
- 1 February 1941
- Launched
- 22 October 1941
- Commissioned
- 31 January 1942
- Struck
- 11 July 1945
- Fate
- Sunk 28 March 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,525 long tons (1,549 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,424 long tons (2,463 t)
- Length
- 94.79 m (311 ft)
- Beam
- 8.23 m (27 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Range
- 11,000 nmi (20,372 km)
- Complement
- 60
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
The triggerfish is any of numerous deep-bodied fishes of warm seas haying an anterior dorsal fin with two or three stout erectile spines.
The first Trigger (SS-237) was laid down on 1 February 1941 at Mare Island, Calif., by the Mare Island Navy Yard; launched on 22 October 1941; sponsored by Mrs. Walter N. Vernou; and commissioned on 30 January 1942, Lt. Comdr. Jack H. Lewis in command.
The submarine sailed for Hawaii on 22 May and reached Pearl Harbor the following week. She sortied for Midway with Task Group 7.2 on the 29th in anticipation of a Japanese attack on that island. Her station was northeast of Midway, and she remained there without contacting any enemy shipping until she was ordered back to Pearl Harbor on 9 June,
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Trigger I (SS-237)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 9-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators
- 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries
- 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears
- two propellers
- 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced
- 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
- Armament
- 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 6 forward, 4 aft
- 24 torpedoes
- 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun
- Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Sister ships
- USS Albacore (SS-218)
- USS Amberjack (SS-219)
- USS Angler
- USS Barb (SS-220)
- USS Bashaw
- USS Blackfish
- USS Bluefish (SS-222)
- USS Bluegill
- USS Bonefish (SS-223)
- USS Bream
- USS Cavalla (SS-244)
- USS Cero (SS-225)
- USS Cobia
- USS Cod
- USS Corvina
- USS Croaker
- USS Dace (SS-247)
- USS Darter (SS-227)
- USS Dorado (SS-248)
- USS Drum (SS-228)
- USS Finback (SS-230)
- USS Flasher (SS-249)
- USS Flier
- USS Flounder
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Trigger (SS-237) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Trigger I (SS-237) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons