USS Grenadier (SS-210)
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| Builder: | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down: | 2 April 1940 |
| Launched: | 29 November 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 1 May 1941 |
| Fate: | Scuttled off Phuket, 22 April 1943, after being damaged by Japanese aircraft |
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| Class and type: | Tambor class diesel-electric submarine |
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| Length: | 307 ft 2 in (93.62 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft 7 1⁄2 in (4.458 m) |
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| Range: | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged |
| Test depth: | 250 ft (76 m) |
| Complement: | 6 officers, 54 enlisted |
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USS Grenadier (SS-210), a Tambor-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grenadier fish, relatives of cod that are very common in bathyal and abyssal habitats.
Her keel was laid down by Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, in April 1940. She was launched on 29 November 1940 sponsored by Mrs. Virginia E. Anderson, wife of Rear Admiral Walter S. Anderson, Director of Naval Intelligence. The boat was commissioned on 1 May 1941 with Lieutenant Commander Allen R. Joyce in command.
On 20 June 1941 Grenadier participated in the search for O-9 (SS-70), which had failed to surface after a deep test dive, and was present two days later as memorial exercises were conducted over the spot where O-9 and her crew lay. After shakedown in the Caribbean Sea, Grenadier returned to Portsmouth on 5 November for refit. Less than three weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she sailed for the Pacific to join the submarine fleet.
Grenadier's first war patrol from 4 February to 23 March 1942 took her near the Japanese home islands, off the coast of Honshū, and brought her several targets but no sinkings. On 12 April Grenadier, now under command of LCDR Willis Lent, departed Pearl Harbor for her second war patrol, along the Shanghai-Yokohama and Nagasaki-Formosa shipping lanes. On 1 May she sank the soviet merchant ship "Angarstroy". On 8 May she torpedoed and sank one of her most important kills of the war, transport Taiyō Maru. Post-war examination of Japanese records showed Taiyō Maru to be more than just the ordinary transport; she was en route to the East Indies with a group of Japanese scientists, economists, and industrial experts, including renowned hydraulic engineer Yoichi Hatta who designed Chianan Irrigation and built Wusanto Reservoir in Taiwan, bent on expediting the exploitation of the conquered territory. Their loss was a notable blow to the Japanese war effort.
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