Stories From the US Submarine Force
The USS Cutlass (SS-478), a Tench-class submarine, was launched on November 5, 1944, at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. Commissioned on March 17, 1945, under the command of Commander Herbert L. Jukes, she was one of the last submarines to enter service during World War II. Named for the cutlassfish, her service history would span decades and two different navies.
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March 17, 2018 – USS Colorado SSN-788 commissioned
Virginia Class Attack Submarine: Named PCU Colorado (SSN-788) on 25 June 2012.The contract to build her was awarded to Huntington Ingalls Industries in partnership with the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics in Newport News, Virginia on 22 December 2008.
SSN-784 through approximately SSN-791 are planned to make up the Third Block or “Flight” Block III subs will feature a revised bow, including some technology from Ohio class SSGNs. SSN-788 will be built at Electric Boat.
Her keel laying ceremony was on 7 March 2015.
Christened on 3 December 2016 & commissioned on 17 March 2018.
In March of 1943, the Pacific War had reached a fever pitch. The U.S. Navy’s submarine force, already proving itself to be one of the most effective weapons in America’s arsenal, was actively hunting Japanese shipping in the vast, contested waters of the South Pacific. Submarines, operating in deadly cat-and-mouse games with Japanese destroyers, were crucial in strangling enemy supply lines. However, with every daring success, there was an equal measure of peril. It was in these waters, north of the Admiralty Islands, that USS Triton (SS-201) embarked on her sixth and final war patrol, never to return.
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Patrol Reports 