USS Grayback (SS-208)
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USS Grayback, was a Tambor-class submarine, and was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the lake herring Coregonus artedi. She ranked 20 among all U.S. submarines in total tonnage
Grayback in 1941
This is the fourth page of Grayback War Diary related to first war patrol.
The USS Grayback (SS-208) memorial on the grounds of the Heslar Naval Armory.
Japanese destroyer Numakaze
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Numakaze was third and final vessel in the Nokaze sub-class, an improvement to the Minekaze-class 1st class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy immediately following World War I. Advanced
USS Grayback (SS-208)
…began on the night of 18 to 19 December; Grayback attacked a convoy of four freighters and three escorts. She sent freighter Gyokurei Maru and escort Numakaze to the bottom and damaged several others in a surface attack. Two nights later, 20 to 21 December, she spotted another convoy of six ships, and after…
Numakaze