USS Menhaden (SS-377) [SEP] vessel class
USS Menhaden (SS-377)
The second USS "Menhaden" (SS-377) was United States Navy submarine. Launched in 1944, she operated out of Pearl Harbor until 1946, then continued in use out of various ports in the Pacific until the 1970s. She was then decommissioned and re-fitted as a remotely controlled, unmanned acoustic test vehicle known as the "Yellow Submarine", until she was scrapped in 1988.
Name.
"Menhaden" was the first submarine and second vessel of the United States Navy
Officially detached from the Darter in November 1944, following her loss the previous month, he returned to the United States. From January to March 1945 he was an instructor at the Submarine School, New London, Connecticut. He next served as executive officer and navigator of the submarine USS "Menhaden" (SS-377) from March to October 1945 and had similar duty on board the submarine USS "Raton" (SS-270).
Biography and military career Post World War II.
Upon his transfer from the Naval Reserve to the