The SS-215, U.S.S. Growler was the fourth submarine in the Navy designed and built to launch strategic deterrent cruise missiles armed with a nuclear warhead. She was commissioned at Portsmouth on August 30, 1958. After shakedown, the SS-215 trained in the Caribbean. On March 12,1960 she began her her first Nuclear Deterrent Patrol, carrying Regulus missiles armed with nuclear warheads.
History for the SS-215 U.S.S Growler
| Patrols | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No: | Captain: | From: | Date: | Duration: | Score (WT): | JANAC | Return: |
| Midway | Howard W. Gilmore | Pearl Harbor | 5/42 | 15 | 0/0 | 0/0 | Pearl Harbor |
| 1 | Howard W. Gilmore | Pearl Harbor | 6/42 | 27 | 2/3,400 | 1/1,500 | Pearl Harbor |
| 2 | Howard W. Gilmore | Pearl Harbor | 8/42 | 49 | 4/26,000 | 4/15,000 | Pearl Harbor |
| 3 | Howard W. Gilmore | Pearl Harbor | 10/42 | 49 | 0/0 | 0/0 | Brisbane |
| 4 | Howard W. Gilmore | Brisbane | 1/43 | 48 | 2/7,900 | 1/5,900 | Brisbane |
| 5 | Arnold F. Schade | Brisbane | 4/43 | 48 | 1/4,500 | 1/5,200 | Brisbane |
| 6 | Arnold F. Schade | Brisbane | 7/43 | 53 | 0/0 | 0/0 | Brisbane |
| 7 | Arnold F. Schade | Brisbane | 10/43 | 35 | 0/0 | 0/0 | Pearl Harbor |
| 8 | Arnold F. Schade | Pearl Harbor | 2/44 | 55 | 0/0 | 0/0 | Pearl Harbor |
| 9 | Thomas B. Oakley, Jr. | Pearl Harbor | 5/44 | 64 | 1/10,000 | 1/2,000 | Pearl Harbor |
| 10 | Thomas B. Oakley, Jr. | Pearl Harbor | 8/44 | 45 | 5/22,800 | 2/2,800 | Fremantle |
| 11 | Thomas B. Oakley, Jr. | Fremantle | 10/44 | 0/0 | 0/0 | Lost 11/44 | |
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