USS Amberjack (SS-219)
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| Builder: | General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down: | 15 May 1941 |
| Launched: | 6 March 1942 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Randall Jacobs |
| Commissioned: | 19 June 1942 |
| Struck: | Sunk by Japanese torpedo boat Hiyodori and SC-18 off Rabaul, 16 February 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine |
| Displacement: | 1,525 long tons (1,549 t) surfaced, 2,424 long tons (2,463 t) submerged |
| Length: | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft (5.2 m) maximum |
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| Speed: | 21 kn (39 km/h) surfaced, 9 kn (17 km/h) submerged |
| Range: | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 48 hours at 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged, 75 days on patrol |
| Test depth: | 300 ft (91 m) |
| Complement: | 6 officers, 54 enlisted |
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USS Amberjack (SS-219) was a Gato-class submarine, the first United States Navy ship named for the amberjack, a vigorous sport fish found in the western Atlantic from New England to Brazil.
Her keel was laid by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut, on 15 May 1941. She was launched on 6 March 1942 (sponsored by Mrs. Randall Jacobs), and commissioned on 19 June 1942, Lieutenant Commander John A. Bole, Jr. in command.
After shakedown training in waters off New London, Connecticut and Newport, Rhode Island, Amberjack got underway on 20 July, bound for the Pacific. She transited the Panama Canal in mid-August and reached Pearl Harbor on 20 August. Following training exercises, Amberjack got underway for her first war patrol on 3 September. Two days later, she touched at Johnston Island to refuel and, later that day, resumed her voyage to her patrol area between the northeast coast of New Ireland and Bougainville, Solomon Islands.
On 15 September, Amberjack was patrolling off Kavieng, New Ireland. Three days later, she made contact with a large Japanese transport escorted by a destroyer, and fired a spread of four torpedoes at the vessels, but none hit. While patrolling in Bougainville Strait on 19 September, the submarine launched two torpedoes at an enemy freighter. The first hit under the target's bridge, and the second broke her keel in two. Amberjack was credited with having sunk Shirogane Maru.
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