USS Pollack (SS-180)

History
Builder:	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Laid down:	1 October 1935
Launched:	15 September 1936
Commissioned:	15 January 1937
Decommissioned:	21 September 1945
Struck:	11 October 1945, then reinstated 28 November 1945, and struck again 29 October 1946
Fate:	Sold for breaking up, 2 February 1947
General characteristics
Class and type:	Porpoise-class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:	1,350 tons (1,372 t) standard, surfaced 1,997 tons (2,029 t) submerged
Length:	298 ft 0 in (90.83 m) (waterline), 300 ft 6 in (91.59 m) (overall)
Beam:	25 ft ⅞ in (7.6 m)
Draft:	13 ft 9 in (4.19 m)
Propulsion:	(as built) 4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38A8 8-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines, 1,300 hp (970 kW) each, driving electrical generators 3 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 6-38A5 opposed piston auxiliary diesels (re-engined) 4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8⅛ opposed piston diesels, 1,365 hp (1,018 kW) each; one Fairbanks-Morse Model 7-38A5¼ opposed piston auxiliary diesel 2 × 120-cell Gould AMTX33HB batteries 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors with 4.84:1reduction gears, 1,090 hp (810 kW) each two shafts
Speed:	19.25 knots (36 km/h) surfaced 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged
Range:	11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) (bunkerage 92,801 US gallons (351,290 l)
Endurance:	10 hours at 5 knots (9.3 km/h), 36 hours at minimum speed submerged
Test depth:	250 ft (76 m)
Complement:	(as built) 5 officers, 45 enlisted (1945) 8 officers, 65 enlisted
Armament:	6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, two aft, 16 torpedoes) 1 × 4-inch (102mm)/50 caliber deck gun 4 × 0.3" (7.62mm) machineguns (2x2)
Notes:	10 Battle stars

USS Pollack (SS-180), a United States Porpoise-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the pollack, a food fish resembling the true cod, but with the lower jaw projecting and without the barbel.

The first Pollack was laid down 1 October 1935 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, in Kittery, Maine; launched 15 September 1936; sponsored by Miss Anne Carter Lauman; and commissioned 15 January 1937, Lt. Clarence E. Aldrich in command.

Pollack stood out of Portsmouth Navy Yard 7 June 1937 for a Caribbean shakedown cruise. She returned from this cruise to Portsmouth 4 September and was underway 29 November for the West Coast of the United States. She reached her new base at San Diego, California, 19 December and spent the next 11 months in a rigorous schedule of maneuvers along the western seaboard with Submarine Division 13, Scouting Force. Pollack shifted to Pearl Harbor 28 October 1939. Except for periods of overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard, she remained in Hawaiian waters until the outbreak of World War II She was underway from San Francisco to Hawaii when the Japanese attacked on 7 December, and she entered Pearl Harbor two days later.

Pollack (commanded by Stanley P. Moseley, Class of 1925), Gudgeon (SS-211) and Plunger (SS-179) departed Pearl Harbor 13 December and were off the coast of Honshū, Japan, a few hours before midnight 31 December, the first American warships to reach Japanese waters in World War II. Pollack damaged 2700-ton cargo ship Heijo Maru 5 January 1942 and two days later sent 2250-ton cargo ship Unkai Maru No. 1 to the bottom, the first officially confirmed victim of the Pacific Fleet Submarine Force. On 9 January she sank 5387-ton freighter Teian Maru by a night surface attack, and ended her first war patrol at Pearl Harbor 21 January.

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