USS Permit (SS-178)

Coordinates: 8°23′N 165°12′E / 8.383°N 165.200°E / 8.383; 165.200
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USS Permit (SS-178)
USS Permit (SS-178)
History
United States
BuilderElectric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1]
Laid down6 June 1935[1]
Launched5 October 1936[1]
Commissioned17 March 1937[1]
Decommissioned15 November 1945[1]
Stricken26 July 1956[1]
FateSold for scrap on 28 June 1958[1]
General characteristics
Class and type
diesel-electric submarine[6]
Displacement1,350 long tons (1,370 t) standard, surfaced,[2] 1,997 long tons (2,029 t) submerged[2]
Length298 ft (91 m) (waterline),[9] 300 ft 6 in (91.59 m) (overall)[10]
Beam25 ft 7⁄8 in (7.6 m)[2]
Draft15 ft (4.6 m)[2]
Propulsion
Speed19.25 kn (35.65 km/h) surfaced,[2] 8.75 kn (16.21 km/h) submerged[2]
Range11,000 nmi (20,000 km) @ 10 kn (19 km/h),[2] (bunkerage 92,801 US gal (351,290 L)[3]
Endurance10 hours @ 5 kn (9.3 km/h), 36 hours @ minimum speed submerged[2]
Test depth250 ft (76 m)[2]
Complement
  • As built: 5 officers, 45 enlisted[2]
  • 1945: 8 officers, 65 enlisted[3]
Armament6 ×
machineguns (2x2)[10]

USS Permit (SS-178), a

permit
. She was laid down as Pinna.

Construction and commissioning

Permit's

Bureau of Engineering, and was commissioned on 17 March 1937, Lieutenant
Charles O. Humphreys in command.

Service history

Pre-World War II

Following

San Diego, California on 18 December to join Submarine Squadron 6 (SubRon 6). For the next 22 months, she cruised the Eastern Pacific, ranging from southern California to the Aleutian Islands and Hawaiian Islands. In October 1939, she got underway for the Philippines
to join the Asiatic Fleet.

World War II

Permit's first cruises were conducted in Philippine waters during 1940–1941. The two-year period of peace time activity gave the submarine's crew valuable training for later war activity. The ship - commanded by

Java, arriving on 6 February 1942. En route, she completed a third war patrol, scouting in waters of the southern Philippines
.

The submarine departed

Fremantle, Western Australia, after minor damage suffered eluding three enemy destroyers
on 18 March.

Permit departed Fremantle on 5 May, and until 11 June was engaged in her fifth war patrol off

Mare Island Navy Yard
on 9 September for overhaul.

She conducted her seventh war patrol off

Truk Atoll, Caroline Islands
, and after several encounters, returned to Pearl Harbor on 25 May. On 7 July, Permit launched two torpedoes which sank Banshu Maru Number 33. Just after midnight, she spotted a two-ship convoy headed for the Korean coast, and with a salvo of two torpedoes sank Showa Maru in five minutes.

At approximately 18:30 on 9 July 1943, Permit mistakenly attacked the

Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands, where she transferred the survivors to Kane on 17 July.[12]

On 20 July 1943, Permit joined the submarines USS Lapon (SS-260) and USS Plunger (SS-179) at Midway for the first wartime penetration into the Sea of Japan, to attack shipping carrying raw materials to Japan from Manchuria and Korea.

After this highly successful patrol, Permit made her way via

Kwajalein, she evaded aerial bombs on 3 September and depth charges on 9 September. She made attacks on enemy vessels, damaging several, before returning to Pearl Harbor on 24 September. Her next war patrol was in the Caroline Islands
, held from early-January - mid-March 1944.

Her 12th war patrol was in the same region, on lifeguard duty in support of the air strikes on Truk. She remained on station from 7 May to 1 June 1944. On 28 May 1944 a PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber of U.S. Navy Bombing Squadron 148 (VB-148) mistakenly attacked her in the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of 06°45′N 151°52′E / 6.750°N 151.867°E / 6.750; 151.867, damaging her with a depth charge . Permit suffered no casualties.[14]

Permit commenced her 13th patrol with her departure from

Majuro Atoll on 30 June, and ended it with her arrival at Brisbane, Australia on 13 August. On 21 September, she departed to relieve Tarpon on lifeguard duty off Truk, and on 11 November ended her 14th and last war patrol at Pearl Harbor
.

After

Boston Naval Shipyard
for inactivation.

Permit decommissioned on 15 November 1945. Her name was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 26 July 1956; her hulk was sold for scrap to A.G. Schoonmaker, Inc., New York City on 28 June 1958.

Awards

References

Citations

  1. ^
    ISBN 1-55750-263-3
    .
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
  3. ^ a b c Alden, p.62.
  4. ^ Alden, John D., Commander, USN (retired). The Fleet Submarine in the U.S. Navy (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1979), p.210.
  5. ^ a b c Alden, p.210.
  6. ^
    ISBN 0-313-26202-0
    .
  7. ^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp.261–263
  8. ^ a b Alden, p.211.
  9. ^ Lenton, H. T. American Submarines (New York: Doubleday, 1973), p.45.
  10. ^ a b c Lenton, p.45.
  11. ^ Blair, Clay, Jr. Silent Victory (New York: Bantam 1976; reprints Lippincott 1975 edition), p.193.
  12. ^ a b c Hinman & Campbell, Appendix B, unpaginated.
  13. ^ Axis History Forum
  14. ^ Hinman & Campbell, pp. 132–133.

Bibliography

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