Sargo Class Submarine - Ships in Class

Ships in Class

Name Hull number Builder Laid Down Launched Commissioned Fate
Sargo SS-188 Electric Boat, Groton, CT 6 June 1938 Sold for scrap 19 May 1947 to Learner Company of Oakland, CA
Saury SS-189 Electric Boat, Groton, CT 20 August 1938 Sold for scrap 19 May 1947 to Learner Company of Oakland, CA
Spearfish SS-190 Electric Boat, Groton, CT 29 October 1938 Sold for scrap 19 May 1947 to Learner Company of Oakland, CA
Sculpin SS-191 Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine 27 July 1938 Damaged by depth charges and gunfire from the IJNS Yamagumo 19 November 1943; scuttled
Squalus SS-192 Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine 19 September 1938 Sank on trials 23 May 1939. Raised and recommissioned as USS Sailfish 9 February 1940

Sold for scrap 18 June 1948 to Luria Brothers and Company of Philadelphia, PA
Swordfish SS-193 Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA 4 January 1939 Depth charged by Japanese anti-submarine vessels 12 January 1945
Seadragon SS-194 Electric Boat, Groton, CT 21 April 1939 Sold for scrap 2 July 1948 to Luria Brothers and Company of Philadelphia, PA
Sealion SS-195 Electric Boat, Groton, CT 25 May 1939 Bombed by Japanese aircraft at Cavite Navy Yard 10 December 1941; scuttled 25 December 1941
Searaven SS-196 Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine 21 June 1939 Expended as target in Operation Crossroads atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll 11 September 1948
Seawolf SS-197 Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine 15 August 1939 Sunk by "friendly fire" from USS Richard M. Rowell (DE-403) 3 October 1944

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