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	Tang
		Tang's second patrol began on 16 March and took her to waters around the Palaus, to Davao Gulf, and to the approaches to Truk.
		Tang broke into the middle of the formation, firing torpedoes as she closed the tankers (later identified as freighters).
		Tang fishtailed under emergency power to clear the turning circle of the torpedo, but it struck her abreast the after torpedo room approximately 20 seconds after it was fired.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t2/tang-i.htm (2057 words)

	USS Tang
		Tang is credited with sinking 31 ships in her five patrols, totaling 227,800 tons, and damaging two for 4,100 tons.
		Tang's second patrol was in the area west of Palau, east of Davao[?], and at Truk.
		The second USS Tang (SS/AGSS-563) was the lead ship of her class[?] and the first submarine designed for underwater performance rather than surfaced speed and handling.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Tang.html (1752 words)

	USS Fletcher DDE-445 chronology for 1955 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Commenced zig zag course with USS Wandank ATA 204.
		Fletcher was detached with USS Radford DDE 446, and Edmonds.
		Commenced exercises with Blackfin, Tang, O’Bannon and Natchaug.
	www.ussfletcher.org /1955.html (6474 words)

	tang page
		TANG cleared the area by running deep and then attempted to get ahead of the convoy for a dawn attack, but the remaining freighter passed out of range under air escort.
		However, with rapidly shoaling water and her keel about to touch bottom, TANG backed off; fired a spread of three with two hits and then surfaced as survivors of the 6,886-ton cargo ship were being rescued by fishing boats.
		The loss of TANG by her own torpedo, the last one fired on the most successful patrol ever made by a U.S. submarine, was a stroke of singular misfortune.
	www.nautilus571.com /tang_page.htm (1786 words)

	USS TANG (SS563)
		Seven years later on October 25, 1951, the second USS Tang (SS 563) was commissioned and was the first of the modern fast attack submarines and surrogate parent of the U.S. Navy's nuclear power submarine force.
		Tang continued to answer all bells from its Hawaiian home port and conducted the full range of multifaceted submarine operations for 20 years.
		Tang earned six battleship efficiency "Es," four ASW "As," and four engineering "Es." The last engineering "E" was won in 1979 after 30 years' service, and almost four Years out of overhaul.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/9563/tang.html (1150 words)

	USS Tang (SS-306) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tang was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tang, a surgeonfish, especially the several West Indian species.
		Tang’s second patrol began on 16 March and took her to waters around the Palau Islands, to Davao Gulf, and to the approaches to Truk.
		Tang celebrated 4 July at dawn by an end-around, submerged attack on an enemy freighter which was near shore.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Tang_(SS-306) (2548 words)

	Nealart.com USS Tang details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		On the night of October 24th, 1944 the USS Tang surfaced, launching an attack against an enemy transport which it had encountered earlier in the day.
		During her 5 patrol career, Tang was credited with sinking the most enemy tonnage of any American submarine during World War II, having sunk 31 ships totaling 227,800 tons and damaging 2 ships at 4,100 tons.
		Before she was lost, Tang was about to complete the most successful submarine patrol ever made, having sunk 13 enemy ships totaling 107,324 tons.
	mysite.verizon.net /nealart/marine/tangdetails.html (280 words)

	SS-306, U.S.S. Tang
		Tang, a Balao class fleet submarine, was launched 17 August 1943 at the Mare Island Navy Yard.
		Tang arrived at Pearl Harbor in early January 1944, and after two weeks of training set off on her first war patrol on 22 January, headed for the Carolines-Marianas area.
		Tang fired her four stern tubes at 400 yards, and the tanker sank.
	www.fleetsubmarine.com /ss-306.html (977 words)

	USN Ships--USS Tang (SS-306)
		USS Tang, a 1525-ton Balao class submarine, was built at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California.
		Tang was awarded two Presidential Unit Citations for her exploits, which included officially recognized sinkings of 24 Japanese ships, totalling nearly 94,000 tons.
		Tang was serving as lifeguard submarine during the 29 April-1 May carrier strikes on Truk.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-t/ss306.htm (894 words)

	SS-563 Tang
		The Tang was the first submarine designed for underwater performance rather than surfaced speed and handling.
		On October 25, 1951, the second USS Tang (SS 563) was commissioned and was the first of the modern fast attack submarines and surrogate parent of the U.S. Navy's nuclear power submarine force.
		By the end, Tang measured more than 292 feet in length and displaced more than 2,000 tons, making it 600 tons heavier and more than 22 feet longer than the boat that slid into the New Hampshire waters in 1951.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/ss-563.htm (999 words)

	Historical Reflection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Tang was brilliantly commanded by Commander Richard H. “Dick” – “Killer” – O’Kane, a young veteran of the Pacific submarine campaign, who had previously served as Commander Dudley W. “Mush” Morton’s Executive Officer aboard the Gato-class submarine USS Wahoo (SS-238).
		Tang’s first encounter with the enemy occurred on the evening of 10 October, when she torpedoed and sank two heavily laden freighters.
		However, as Tang closed in this time, she was detected before reaching attack position, and immediately came under 5-inch and 40-millimeter gunfire from the escorts.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/usw/autumn98/historic.htm (1489 words)

	Stories about and by Submariners
		With Tang “dead in the water, and holding her breath,” he fired a spread of four torpedoes at the freighter Fukuyama Maru, which blew up and sank instantly.
		Tang’s bow hung at a sharp angle above the surface, moving about in the current as does a buoy in a seaway.
		Closing Tang against the current was painfully slow and interrupted momentarily by a depth-charging patrol.
	diodon349.com /Stories/story_about_okane.htm (971 words)

	USS Tang
		The Tang was settling quickly by the stern.
		We were taken from the train and we had to walk in the rain for some distance to the camp.
		When I had made my escape from Tang, the only piece of clothing I had on was a pair of pants so all the time we were walking I was very wet and cold.
	amh.freehosting.net /tang.html (3715 words)

	USS TANG SS-306
		TANG set out from Pearl Harbor on 24 September 1944, to begin her fifth war patrol during WWII.
		On 27 September she topped off with fuel at Midway and left there the same day, heading for an area between the northwest coast of Formosa, and the China coast.
		Shipmates on Eternal Patrol in USS TANG (SS-306):
	www.geocities.com /rrowe50/306/ss-306.html (2148 words)

	BB 55 during World War II - Truk Rescue
		The TANG sank the capsized Kingfisher with gunfire.
		TANG's arrival, however, was delayed as the submarine was detoured to pick up another downed aviator.
		Nearly five hours later the TANG surfaced and took aboard Burns' passengers; and having been in the water so long, Burns' Kingfisher was too water-logged to take off and was forced to be sunk by gunfire from TANG.
	www.battleshipnc.com /history/bb55/wwii/battles/truk.php (502 words)

	SUBSIM Reviews - Richard O'Kane
		After intensive training exercises in the San Diego area the USS TANG left for the Pacific, arriving in Pearl Harbor on January 8, 1944.
		Emergency speed was called for but twenty seconds after firing the malfunctioning torpedo hit the stern of TANG and she sank immediately.
		The TANG received two Presidential Unit Citations for outstanding performance in combat (1) during her First, Second and Third War Patrols and (2) for her Fourth and Fifth War Patrols.
	www.brazosport.cc.tx.us /~nstevens/okane.html (834 words)

	Tang (SS 563)
		The second Tang (SS-663) was laid down by the Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard on 18 April 1949; launched on 19 June 1951; sponsored bY Mrs.
		With the exception of a brief MIDPAC deployment in March, Tang operated out of her home port of San Diego for t he remainder of 1977 and the first half of 1978.
		On 1 August, Tang's home port was changed to Groton, Connecticut, in anticipation of her forthcoming inter-fleet transfer.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/submar/ss563.htm (825 words)

	Richard H. O'Kane, Rear Admiral, United States Navy
		He retired in 1957, and was awarded the Medal of Honor for valor as commander of the USS Tang in South Pacific.
		The Tang sank a Japanese ship every 11 days on five patrols and rescued scores of US fliers who had been shot down in raids on Japanese ships and bases.
		O'Kane was one of nine survivors after the USS Tang he commanded was destroyed by one of its own torpedoes.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /rokane.htm (1112 words)

	USS Pampanito SS-383 Submarine, San Francisco Bay, WWII
		The USS Kabala, for example, sunk 46,000 tons of shipping on 6 war patrols, one of the most successful of the war.
		One of the largest subs of the time was the USS Argonaut at 387 ft. and was fitted with a 6-inch gun.
		The USS Tang rescued 22 downed flyers, the most in the war involving up to 13 US aircraft carriers.
	www.pashnit.com /roads/cal/USSPampanito.htm (1392 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine USS Tang of the Balao class
		USS Tang returning after her second war patrol.
		Born: 2 February 1911, Dover, N.H. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Tang operating against 2 enemy Japanese convoys on 23 and 24 October 1944, during her fifth and last war patrol.
		In defiance of the enemy's relentless fire, he closed the concentration of ship and in quick succession sent 2 torpedoes each into the first and second transports and an adjacent tanker, finding his mark with each torpedo in a series of violent explosions at less than l,000-yard range.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/3052.html (1121 words)

	USS TANG 563
		USS TANG(SS-563) was assigned to SubRon1, ComSubPac after trials and training along the east coast.
		On 2 October 1974, she headed south to conduct training exercises with surface units and submarines of the U.S., Chilean, and Preuvian navies.
		At the completion on UNITAS XV, TANG visited Acapulco, Mexicao, before returning to San Diego on 16 December for Christmas standdown.
	www.snafubar.com /tang563.html (774 words)

	USS TANG
		TANG under Cmdr. R.H. O’Kane set out from Pearl Harbor on September 24, 1944, to begin her fifth war patrol.
		A night surface attack was launched on October 24, 1944 against a transport which had previously been stopped in an earlier attack.
		She is credited with having sunk 13 vessels for 107,324 tons of enemy shipping on this patrol, and her Commanding Officer has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
	www.csp.navy.mil /ww2boats/tang.htm (936 words)

	SUBPAGE
		USS TROUT (SS 566) was commissioned at the U.S. Naval Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut on 27 June 1952.
		She was built by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut as a Fast Attack, USS TANG (SS 563) Class, Diesel Electric Submarine.
		TROUT is the second submarine in the U.S. Navy to, bear the name Her predecessor, USS TROUT SS 202, distinguished herself in ten war patrols-during World War II in which she sank 25 enemy ships for a total of 75,000 tons.
	www.usstroutss566.com (1085 words)

	USS Tang
		The USS Long Beach, USS Maddox, USS Tang (submarine), USS Cavalla (submarine), are the first in a series of naval art prints by renowned naval artists.
		On 29th and 30th April 1944, while surfaced close to jagged reefs, and Japanese shore guns, the USS Tang rescued 22 downed flyers from Task Force 58s strikes against enemy positions on the islands - This was the largest rescue of airmen by a submarine in the war.
		USS Bassett APD73 launches LCVPS to rescue 150 crew members of USS Indianapolis CA-35, sunk by a Japanese submarine, having delivered components of the Atomic Bomb.
	www.art-of-america.com /cruisers.htm (1060 words)

	USS O’Kane (DDG 77)
		Upon graduation in 1934, O'Kane was commissioned as an Ensign and served on USS CHESTER and USS PRUITT before reporting for instruction in submarines at the Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut, in January 1938.
		In August 1943, O'Kane returned to the Mare Island Navy Yard where he assumed command of USS TANG upon her commissioning on October 15, 1943.
		In what was to be her final battle, the TANG encountered a heavily escorted enemy convoy.
	navysite.de /dd/ddg77.htm (786 words)

	FORWARD TORPEDO ROOM
		Unfortunately, this feature was responsible for the loss of some of our own submarines when the steering mechanism failed to stop the turn in the preset direction and the torpedoes continued in a 'circular run' striking the submarine that launched it.
		It is known that USS TANG, USS TULLIBEE, and possibly USS WAHOO, were sunk by their own circular running torpedoes.
		If the occupant of the small compartment does not set all of the valves properly, he can expect an unpleasant surprise, often called "baptism" or "chocolate chips." The metal privacy door has been replaced by Plexiglas to provide visitors with a good view of the head.
	www.usscod.org /ftor.html (975 words)

	'You never lose hope,' sub survivor recalls Plight of Russian vessel Kursk brings memories of horror to the surface for ...
		The Tang plunged 180 feet after a torpedo misfired and struck the submarine after a skirmish with a Japanese convoy.
		Dan Persico, 82, of Amsterdam, N.Y., who survived the sinking of the USS Squalus in 1939, in which 26 died, remembers clearly what it was like: ''It was cold, dark, and I was anxious to get out of there.''
		In the case of the Tang, Clayton and the other four survivors were forced to make a dangerous assent from the submarine using an escape hatch, a buoy line and emergency oxygen bags known as Momsen lungs.
	www.fas.org /news/russia/2000/2553843s.htm (1689 words)

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		Captain Brooks was the Commanding Officer of the USS Thomas Edison (SSBN-610) and the USS Canopus (AS-34).
		He rose from E-1 to Chief Torpedoman converted to the Officer ranks and went to Sub School and reported to the USS DIODON SS-349 in San Diego in 1949, followed by commissioning of the USS TANG SS-563.
		Harry qualified in submarines on the USS SIRAGO SS-485 as a LT(jg) in November 1960.
	www.ussvi.org /Final/final-04.htm (4534 words)

	USS Tang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Tang (SS-306) was a Balao-class submarine sunk by her own torpedo during World War II.
		The second Tang (SS/AGSS-563) served through the first half of the Cold War.
		She was the lead ship of her class and the first American submarine designed for underwater performance rather than surfaced speed and handling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Tang (153 words)

	Submarine Force Medal of Honor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of this life above and beyond the call of duty as Commanding Officer of the USS TANG operating against two enemy Japanese convoys on October 23 and 24, 1944, during her Fifth and last War Patrol.
		Boxed in by blazing tankers, freighter, transport and several destroyers, he blasted two of the targets with his remaining torpedoes and, with pyrotechnics bursting on all sides, cleared the torpedoes and, with a heavily escorted convoy steaming to support the Leyte campaign with reinforcements and supplies and with crated planes piled high on each unit.
		In defiance of the enemy's relentless fire, he closed the concentration of ships and in quick succession sent two torpedoes each into the first and second transports and an adjacent tanker, finding his mark with each torpedo in a series of violent explosions at less than a thousand-yard range.
	www.ussnautilus.org /okane.html (256 words)

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