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Patrol Reports

FTB1(SS) David Ray Bowman

Podcast stories from the US Navy Submarine Force - 1900 to today Brought to you by the Bremerton Base of United States Submarine Veterans, Inc

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The Silent Prowler and the Submarine School Graduate:...

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2025/09/03

The USS Cod was one of the Silent Service’s proud hunters in World War II, a steel prowler built to stalk and sink the ships that kept Japan’s war machine alive. Commissioned in June of 1943, she quickly entered the fight in the South China Sea and the waters off Java and Luzon. Aboard her during the second and third war patrols was Calvin Baker, a young man who had graduated from submarine school on September 3, 1943.Baker’s story is not about medals or headlines, but about stepping out of the

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00:07:05

USS S-5: The Sunken Submarine That Cheated Death off...

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2025/09/01

Welcome back to Patrol Reports. Today we’re taking you back to September 1, 1920, when the brand-new submarine USS S-5 went down off the Delaware Capes in what should have been a routine dive. Thirty-eight men were suddenly trapped in what one survivor later called a steel coffin on the ocean floor. Their air was fouling, chlorine gas was forming, and the Atlantic was doing its best to finish them. What followed was one of the greatest survival stories in American submarine history. A desperate plan

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00:14:59

USS F-4 Raised from the Depths: How the U.S. Navy...

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2025/08/29

On August 29, 1915, the U.S. Navy accomplished something no one had ever done before: it raised a lost submarine from the ocean floor. The USS F-4, a pioneer of America’s early undersea fleet, had sunk off Honolulu months earlier, entombing her crew in the dark. Salvaging her seemed impossible. The boat lay more than 300 feet down, crushed by pressure and mud, beyond the limits of human endurance at the time. Yet through grit, ingenuity, and some downright stubborn determination, naval engineers and

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00:47:21

USS Queenfish at the North Pole: Captain Jim Harvey...

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2025/08/27

Welcome to Patrol Reports, stories from the history of the United States Submarine Force, brought to you by the United States Submarine Veterans Bremerton Base. On this episode, we journey north—far north—with Captain Jim Harvey, former commanding officer of USS Queenfish (SSN-651). In August of 1985, Queenfish and her crew did what only a handful of submariners had ever done: they surfaced at the North Pole.Captain Harvey shares the planning, the challenges, and the nerves that come with taking a

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00:12:20

USS Guitarro’s Moonlit Victory: The Surface Gun...

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2025/08/26

On August 27, 1944, the USS Guitarro found herself in the thick of Japan’s desperate effort to keep its supply lines open in the Philippines. By that stage of the war, large tankers and freighters were easy prey, so the Japanese turned to smaller intercoastal vessels, hoping their shallow drafts and coastal routes might spare them from American attack. That gamble ended when Commander Enrique D’Hamel Haskins brought Guitarro to the surface under a pale moon and engaged the Nanshin Maru No. 27.The

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00:05:32

The Routine of Torpedo Offloads and Berth Shifts in...

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2025/08/25

In the summer of 1958, the USS Queenfish was not chasing enemy shipping or slipping through Pacific patrol zones. Instead, she was tied up in San Diego Harbor, carrying out the routine but necessary duties that kept the submarine force sharp. For her crew, it meant a long stretch of daily operations that rarely made headlines but defined the rhythm of Navy life. Torpedoes were offloaded, equipment was checked, and berths were shifted from one buoy to another as the boat prepared for her next

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00:06:11

USS Ronquil’s First War Patrol: Convoy Battles off...

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2025/08/24

In late August of 1944, USS Ronquil, a brand-new Balao-class submarine, made her first serious mark in the Pacific war. After weeks of drills, training, and shakedowns, the crew finally got their chance at combat in the waters north of Formosa. What they found was a massive Japanese convoy, heavy with cargo ships and bristling with escorts. For a green boat on her first patrol, it was a dangerous assignment.Over the course of two days, August 23 and 24, Ronquil went head-to-head with the enemy,

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00:14:37

USS Batfish and the Velasco Reef Strike, August 23, 1944

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2025/08/23

The USS Batfish (SS-310) earned her reputation later in the war as the submarine that destroyed three enemy subs in just three days, a record that still stands. But before that legendary patrol, Batfish carved out her place in the Pacific with a series of bold and dangerous actions that tested her crew and her skipper, Lieutenant Commander John K. Fyfe.One of those moments came on August 23, 1944, during her Fourth War Patrol near Palau. Acting on a contact report, Batfish closed in on Velasco Reef

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00:12:15

The Deep Peril: Submarine Disasters and the Urgent...

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2025/08/22

In 1928, the submarine force found itself caught between tragedy and transformation. The year opened with the lingering sorrow of the USS S-4, lost after colliding with the Coast Guard destroyer Paulding. Her crew of forty never came home, though their struggle and the desperate attempts to save them gripped the nation. Salvage teams fought the sea for months until the boat was finally raised, and the lessons of that disaster would change the Navy forever.Across the Atlantic, Italy’s F-14 sank in

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00:06:29

The Water Wolf - USS Muskallunge at Camranh Bay

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2025/08/21

Welcome to Patrol Reports, where we share stories from the history of the United States Submarine Force. Today we turn to USS Muskallunge, a Gato-class submarine whose name came from the legendary muskie, the fish of ten thousand casts.Built at Electric Boat and commissioned in 1943, Muskallunge was destined to play an outsized role in the Silent Service. She tested the torpedoes that helped turn the tide of the war, carried the first electric torpedoes into combat, and prowled the Pacific through

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00:05:36

Damaged But Deadly: USS Gar (SS-206) and the Action...

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2025/08/20

On August 20, 1943, the submarine USS Gar went to battle carrying more than torpedoes. She carried damage. Earlier that day, she struck a floating log that bent her port screw and left her nearly crippled. On the surface she could barely make eleven knots, underwater only four. Most commanders would have turned back. But Gar pressed on.That afternoon, she sighted a Japanese freighter with an escort in Makassar Strait. Even hobbled, she closed for an attack. Three torpedoes left their tubes. Depth

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00:15:19

The Destruction of Convoy Hi-71: USS Bluefish...

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2025/08/19

August 19, 1944. On that night, Bluefish would slip into history. Alongside USS Rasher, she fell upon one of the last great Japanese convoys, a lumbering mass of ships carrying men, supplies, and hope for a faltering empire. Out in the blackness, under rain squalls and against the pulse of enemy escorts, Bluefish delivered one of the decisive strikes of the submarine war. That night became her defining moment, and it remains a sharp reminder of how much damage a single submarine could do when

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