USS Golet
USS Golet (SS-361)
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Name | USS Golet |
Namesake | Golet, an alternative name for the Dolly Varden trout |
Builder | Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin[1] |
Laid down | 27 January 1943[1] |
Launched | 1 August 1943[1] |
Commissioned | 30 November 1943[1] |
Fate | Sunk by Japanese vessels northwest of Honshū, 14 June 1944. All 82 crew lost[2] |
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Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nautical miles (13,000 mi; 20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (12 mph; 19 km/h)[3] |
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Test depth | 300 ft (90 m)[3] |
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USS Golet (SS-361), a
Construction and commissioning
Golet initially was ordered as a unit of the
Operational history
Golet departed Manitowoc 19 December 1943 via the Mississippi River for New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving 28 December. After shakedown training at Panama and final battle practice in Hawaiian waters Golet departed Pearl Harbor on 18 March 1944 for her maiden war patrol.
First Patrol: 18 March 1944
Golet departed
Second Patrol: 28 May 1944
Lieutenant Commander James S. Clark took command of Golet, departed
Golet had been scheduled to depart her area on 5 July and was expected at
Fate: 14 June 1944
Japanese antisubmarine records available after the war revealed that Golet was the probable victim of a Japanese antisubmarine attack made 14 June 1944. These records mention that the attack brought up cork, rafts, and other debris and a heavy pool of oil, all evidence of the sinking of a submarine.
Commemoration
Commissioning Crew: 30 November 1943
A plaque at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, lists the members of Golet′s commissioning crew on 30 November 1943 and provides a brief history of Golet′s career.
Memorial: 9 March 2013
A memorial to Golet and her crew is located in Metairie
U.S.S. Golet SS-361 A submarine built by Manitowoc shipbuilding Co of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Funds for this boat were raised by the citizens of Caddo Parish Louisiana. Launched one August 1943, her second patrol under the command of LCDR. James S. Clark was sunk by enemy depth charges on 14 June 1944. All hands were lost – 82 men. May God rest their souls.
The memorial also lists her crew at the time of her sinking, all of whom were lost, as follows:
- George Robert Barlow
- Elwin Charles Barnes
- Richard Andrew Barta
- Edward Ludwig Bartz
- Donald William Beaulieu
- Donald Lee Belcher
- Carl McCasland Bickham
- Edward Richard Blackburn
- John Wilson Breunig
- John Warren Brown
- Joseph Alfred Butor
- Allan Harold Carr
- James Seerley Clark, C.O.[8][9]
- William Melvin Coram
- Robert Raymond Danko
- Walter Dearl Davidson
- Clifton Dowey
- Vinton Jordan Earle
- Willard Archie Edwards
- LeRoy Leo Germann
- Herbert C. Goetz
- George Leonard Gormley
- Joseph Frederick Greenhalgh
- Stanley Erwin Grumet
- Oliver Clark Guest, Jr.
- Robert Edward Hanley
- Robert Edwin Hardy
- Raymond Lavern Harville
- George Donald Hendley
- Robert Edward Hoffman
- Elmer James Hughes
- Jack Junior Humble
- Robert William Infalt
- Clarence Herman Johnson
- Walter Maurice Kane, Jr.
- John Kolbucar
- John Mike Koutsos
- Leo Richard Leinwand, Jr.
- Cecil Burton Leonard
- George James Lewis
- Glen Gordon Lockwood
- Horace Paul Lytle
- Clifford Leroy Martin
- William Evorn McCulough, Jr.
- Harry Bland McLaughlin, Jr.
- Ernest Wade Miller
- Gilbert Lee Millhouse
- Peter Paul Milus
- Solomon Joseph Numair
- Michael Parry
- Melvin Lars Peterson
- George Anthony Pinter
- Frank Rudolph Pograis
- Robert Charles Reichelt
- Arthur Judson Rockwood
- Julius Rose
- James Guy Rymal
- Walter Robert Sadler
- Arvale Elvin Schlemmer
- Ernest Ferdinand Schramm
- Clifford Edward Sederstrand
- Eugene Felix Sieracki
- Robert Anton Simandl
- Donald Bruce Smith, Jr.
- George Sterling, Jr.
- Arthur Robert Stone
- John Clinton Strout, Jr.
- William Gene Stull
- Jess Elmer Sturdivan
- Emil Horace Sutherland
- Woodrow Wilson Swartzback
- Alfred Horatio Tarr
- Roland Norris Thompson
- Raymond Beverly Tinker
- Alexander Scammel Wadsworth, III, X.O.[10]
- Raymond Robert Walz
- John Harris Wesley
- Joseph Stanley White
- Ernest Edward Whitney, Jr.
- Roy Edgar Williams
- Walter Joseph Winkle
- Homer Don Wright
See also
- List of submarines of the United States Navy
- List of U.S. Navy losses in World War II
References
- ^ ISBN 1-55750-263-3.
- ^ ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
- ^ a b c d U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305-311
- ^ Lenton, H. T. American Submarines (Doubleday, 1973), p.78.
- ^ a b c d Lenton, p.79.
- ^ Friedman 1995, p. 209
- ^ "Golet (SS 361)". public1.nhhcaws.local. Retrieved 9 August 2021.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "On Eternal Patrol – James Seerley Clark". www.oneternalpatrol.com. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
- ^ "Clark, James Seerley". public2.nhhcaws.local. Retrieved 9 August 2021.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "VMH: ALEXANDER S. WADSWORTH, III, LCDR, USN". usnamemorialhall.org. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.