Tag: USS Squalus

Legacy of Sailfish

On June 24, 1948, readers of The North Adams Transcript opened their paper to find a quiet notice tucked amid the day’s dispatches: the old submarine Sailfish had been sold for scrap. No fanfare, no ceremony. Just a line confirming that one of the most storied submarines in American naval history had reached her end. To most readers, it might have meant little. But to those who knew her story—those who had followed her transformation from the sunken Squalus to the battle-hardened Sailfish—it marked the closing chapter of a saga that began with tragedy, rose through heroism, and sailed deep into the waters of legend.

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Squalus Down

On a crisp May morning in 1939, the crew of the USS Squalus set out from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, unaware that they were about to write one of the most remarkable chapters in submarine history. The Squalus was new. She was sleek, modern, and powerful. A Sargo-class submarine, she had been launched only the previous September, and commissioned into service just two months before. Her commander, Lieutenant Oliver Naquin, a Naval Academy graduate and seasoned submariner, had a reputation for discipline, attention to detail, and the quiet confidence needed to lead a crew through the perilous underworld of undersea warfare.

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Sailfish Reborn

The oceans were restless in the years leading up to World War II. Beneath their surface, the United States Navy was building a silent service that would eventually become the prowling teeth of Pacific warfare. But in those early days, undersea warfare was still uncertain, its technology complex and often unforgiving. No story better captures the peril, perseverance, and power of this era than the journey of a submarine that bore two names: first as a tragedy, and then as a warrior. This is the story of USS Sailfish, known to ghost and legend as Squalus.

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