USS Bashaw [SEP] vessel class
USS Bashaw
USS "Bashaw" (SS/SSK/AGSS-241), a "Gato"-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bashaw.
"Bashaw" was laid down on 4 December 1942 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.. She was launched on 25 July 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Florence Ives, wife of Captain Norman S. Ives (killed August 2, 1944 near Dol-en-Bretagne, France commanding a naval patrol), and commissioned on 25
was finally decommissioned and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 13 September 1969. She was the last "Gato" class submarine to be decommissioned. "Bashaw" was sold for scrap on 4 August 1972; however, some sources state she was used as a target. I sailed on her for 3 years and was on the decommishing crew in 1969. She was used as a target and sank off of Hawaii in fairly shallow waters, If you see an old grade B movie with Donnie and Marie Osmond called "Goin'