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USS Tigrone (SS-419) - Sinkings

USS Tigrone and some of the airmen she rescued

Some of the U.S. airmen rescued by USS Tigrone

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Patrol 1

9 March 1945 - 24 April 1945

No sinkings - Lifeguard Duty

Patrol 2

20 May 1945 - 3 July 1945

Yawata Maru No. 3. - small vessel not credited to Tigrone in JANAC.

Lifeguard Duty

Patrol 3

31 July 1945 - end of hostilities

No sinkings - Lifeguard Duty
Note In her three war patrols, USS Tigrone rescued 31 men on her own, and 22 more that she received in transfers from other submarines.
Totals

Current research credits Tigrone with 1 ship sunk, 19 tons.

JANAC does not credit Tigrone with any sinkings.

Alden-McDonald credit Tigrone with 1 ship sunk, 19 tons.

SORG credits Tigrone with 1 ship of 100 tons sunk.

Sources

Japanese Naval and Merchant Ship Losses - JANAC on the NHHC website

JANAC on the Hyperwar website - https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Japan/IJN/JANAC-Losses/JANAC-Losses-6.html

SORG- http://archive.hnsa.org/doc/subreports-sorg.htm (Excel spreadsheet download)

Archives of the Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum (PFSM)

War Patrol Reports - USS Tigrone (SS-419)

Monthly Losses of Combatant and Non-Combatant Vessels

太平洋戦争時の喪失船舶明細表(汽船主体)- Lost Vessel table during the Pacific War (merchant vessels)

Alden, John D., and McDonald, Craig R. - U.S. & Allied Sub Successes in the Pacific & Far East during WWII - Fourth Edition, 2009

Campbell, Douglas E. - Save Our Souls - Rescues Made by U.S. Submarines During World War II, Syneca Research Group, Inc., 2016

Cressman, Robert - The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II, Naval Institute Press, 2000.

Wrecksite - https://www.wrecksite.eu/wrecksite.aspx

Miramar Ship Index - https://www.miramarshipindex.nz/

Imperial Japanese Navy Page - http://www.combinedfleet.com/

Wikipedia Japan - https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Japan Center for Asian Historical Records - National Archives of Japan - https://www.jacar.go.jp/index.html

Photo Sources

Official U.S. Navy Photos - Naval History & Heritage Command

Archives of the Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum (PFSM)

Imperial Japanese Navy Page - http://www.combinedfleet.com/

Japanese Merchant Ship photos - Wrecksite - copyright owners retain all rights. Photos used on this site will be taken down should the owner request their removal.

 

Sinkings by Selected Submarines

List of Ships Sunk by Selected Submarines

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