USS Amberjack memorial - Charleston South Carolina
Posted by: teeoff2
N 32° 46.179 W 079° 55.882
17S E 600088 N 3626256
USS Amberjack Memorial listing the Subarines still on Patrol and the sailors that were lost in WWII when the Amberjack was lost.
Waymark Code: WM4772
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 07/17/2008
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USS Amberjack (SS-219) was a Gato-class submarine, the first United States Navy ship named for the amberjack, a vigorous sport fish found in the western Atlantic from New England to Brazil.
Her keel was laid by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut, on 15 May 1941. She was launched on 6 March 1942 sponsored by Mrs. Randall Jacobs, and commissioned on 19 June 1942, with Lieutenant Commander John A. Bole, Jr., in command.
There is a lot of information about the war patrols of the Amberjack on this web page.