USS S-28 (SS-133) - San Diego, CA
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N 32° 44.188 W 117° 12.645
11S E 480254 N 3622091
The Memorial notes that about 50 men were lost when the sub was lost July 4, 1944.
Waymark Code: WMT2K0
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/14/2016
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This Memorial is one of dozens at San Diego's Liberty Station Park.
The memorial has a photo of the vessel..a submarine and provides a history which Wikipedia (
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"USS S-28 (SS-133) was a S-class submarine of the United States Navy. A diesel submarine, she served during World War II during which she accounted for the sinking of one Japanese ship. Later during an exercise, she was lost at sea with all hands. Her keel was laid down on 16 April 1919 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 20 September 1922, sponsored by Mrs. William R. Monroe, and commissioned on 13 December 1923, Lieutenant Kemp C. Christian in command...
Loss
On 13 October 1943, S28 moored at Attu. The next day, she departed for Dutch Harbor, whence, in November, she headed south to Hawaii. She arrived at Pearl Harbor at mid-month, and — after overhaul — commenced training duty. For the next seven months, she remained in Hawaiian waters, providing training services. Then, on 3 July 1944, she began training operations off Oahu with the United States Coast Guard cutter Reliance. The anti-submarine warfare exercises continued into the evening of 4 July. At 17:30, the day's concluding exercise began. Contact between the two became sporadic and, at 18:20, the last, brief contact with S-28 was made and lost. All attempts to establish communications failed.
Assistance arrived from Pearl Harbor, but a thorough search of the area failed to locate the submarine. Two days later, a slick of diesel fuel appeared in the area where she had been operating, but the extreme depth exceeded the range of available equipment. A Court of Inquiry was unable to determine the cause of the loss of S-28."