U.S. Submarine Losses
The following is a chronological listing of all U.S. Submarines lost since the beginning of the U.S. Submarine Force in 1900.
| Boat Name | Date Lost | Circumstances of Loss |
|---|---|---|
| USS F-4 (SS-23) | 25 March 1915 | Lost with 21 Men when it foundered off Honolulu Harbor. |
| USS F-1 (SS-20) | 17 December 1917 | Lost with 19 Men when it was sunk after collision with the USS F-3 (SS22) off San Clemente, California. |
| USS H-1 (SS-28) | 12 March 1920 | Lost with 4 men when it sank after being grounded off Santa Margarita Island, Baja California, Mexico |
| USS S-5 (SS-110) | 1 September 1920 | Lost off the Delaware Capes. All the crew escaped through a hole cut in hull in the tiller room |
| USS O-5 (SS-66) | 29 October 1923 | Lost with 3 men when it was sunk after a collision with the SS Abangarez (owned by the United Fruit Company) off the Panama Canal. Torpedoman’s Mate 2nd Class (SS) Henry Berault received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic action. |
| USS S-51(SS-162) | 25 September 1925 | Lost with 33 men when it was sunk after a collision with SS City of Rome off Block Island, Rhode Island. |
| USS S-4 (SS-109) | 17 December 1927 | Lost with 40 men when it was sunk after being rammed by USCGC Paulding off Provincetown, Massachusetts. |
| USS Squalus (SS-192) | 23 May 1939 | Lost with 26 men when it flooded and sank off Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The boat was salvaged and re-commissioned under a new name. |
| USS O-9 (SS-70) | 20 June 1941 | Lost with 33 men when it foundered off the Isle of Shoals, 15 miles from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. |
| USS Sealion (SS-195) | 10 December 1941 | Lost with 4 men by aerial bombs during a Japanese air attack at Cavite Navy Yard, Republic of the Philippines. |
| USS S-36 (SS-141) | 20 January 1942 | Lost when it was destroyed after she ran aground on the Taka Bakang Reef in Makassar Strait, Indonesia, near Makassar City. The crew was rescued. |
| USS S-26 (SS-131) | 24 January 1942 | Lost with 46 men in the Gulf of Panama, 14 miles West of San Jose Light when USS PC-460 rammed it. 3 men survived. |
| USS Shark (SS-174) | 11 February 1942 | Lost with all hands (59 men) when it was sunk by surface craft East of Menado, Celebes Island as a result of one of three Japanese attacks. |
| USS Perch (SS-176) | 3 March 1942 | Lost when it was sunk by Japanese surface attack 30 miles NW of Surabaya, Java. 59 men were taken prisoner, 6men died as POWs. 53 survived the war. |
| USS S-27 (SS-132) | 19 June 1942 | Lost when it grounded off Amchitka Island. All the crew were rescued. |
| USS Grunion (SS-216) | 30 July 1942 | Lost with all hands (70 men) off Kiska Island, Aleutians (Alaska) to unknown causes. |
| USS S-39 (SS-144) | 13 August 1942 | Lost when it was destroyed after grounding on reef south of Rossel Island, Louisiade Archipelago. All the crew were rescued |
| USS Argonaut (SS-166) | 10 January 1943 | Lost with all hands (102 men) in the Java Sea by Japanese surface attack. |
| USS Amberjack (SS-219) | 16 February 1943 | Lost with all hands (72 men) by aerial bombs and surface craft off Rabaul in the Solomon Sea. 1 additional killed earlier in Patrol. |
| USS Grampus (SS-207) | 5 March 1943 | Lost with all hands (71 men) by Japanese surface attack on the Solomon Islands. |
| USS Triton (SS-201) | 15 March 1943 | Lost with all hands (74 men) by Japanese surface attack off New Guinea. |
| USS Pickerel (SS-177) | 3 April 1943 | Lost with all hands (74 men) by Japanese surface attack off Honshu, Japan. |
| USS Grenadier (SS-210) | 22 April 1943 | Lost 10 miles west of Lem Voalan Strait in Indian Ocean. Scuttled after being badly damaged by bombs. 76 men were taken prisoner, 4 men died as POWs. 72 men survived the war. |
| USS R-12 (SS-89) | 12 June 1943 | Lost with 42 men off Key West, Florida, to unknown causes. 3 men survived. |
| USS Runner (SS-275) | Between 26 June & early July 1943 | Lost with all hands (78 men) by possible Japanese mine between Midway Island and Japan between. |
| USS Grayling (SS-209) | 9 September 1943 | Lost with all hands (76 men) to unknown causes when it was sunk in or near Tablas Strait, Republic of the Philippines. |
| USS Pompano (SS-181) | 17 September 1943 | Lost with all hands (77 men) probably by Japanese Air/Sea attack off Aomori Prefecture near Shiriya Zaki. |
| USS Cisco (SS-290) | 28 September 1943 | Lost with all hands (76 men) on during a Japanese Air and Surface attack in the Sulu Sea. |
| USS S-44 (SS-155) | 7 October 1943 | Lost on with the loss of 56 men when it was sunk by surface craft off Paramushiru, Kuriles. 2 men survived and were taken prisoner. |
| USS Wahoo (SS-238) | 11 October 1943 | Lost with all hands (80 men) during a Japanese air and surface attack in La Perouse Strait off northern Japan. |
| USS Dorado (SS-248) | 12 October 1943 | Lost with all hands (77 men) probably by an Allied Air Attack in the SW Atlantic. |
| USS Corvina (SS-226) | 16 November 1943 | Lost with all hands (82 men) during a Japanese submarine attack off Truk. |
| USS Sculpin (SS-191) | 19 November 1943 | Lost with 43 men when it was sunk by a Japanese warship north of Oroluk Island near Truk. 20 more died as POWs & 21 men survived the war. |
| USS Capelin (SS-289) | Between 23 November and 3 December 1943 | Lost with all hands (76 men) in the Celebes Sea due to unknown causes. |
| USS Scorpion (SS-278) | 5 January 1944 | Lost with all hands (77 men) sometime in the Yellow Sea off China due to unknown causes. |
| USS Grayback (SS-208) | 26 February 1944 | Lost with all hands (80 men) during a Japanese Air and Surface attack off Okinawa. |
| USS Trout (SS-202) | 29 February 1944 | Lost with all hands (81 men) during a Japanese Surface Attack in the Philippine Sea. |
| USS Tullibee (SS-284) | 26 March 1944 | Lost with 79 men north of Palau. Sunk by her own torpedo. One man survived and was taken prisoner. |
| USS Gudgeon (SS-211) | 18 April 1944 | Lost with all hands (79 men) during a Japanese air and surface attack in Northern Marianas. |
| USS Herring (SS-233) | 1 June 1944 | Lost with all hands (83 men) by a Japanese shore battery and surface craft off Matsuwa Island, Kuriles. |
| USS Golet (SS-361) | 14 June 1944 | Lost with all hands (82 men) during a Japanese surface attack off Honshu, Japan. |
| USS S-28 (SS-133) | 4 July 1944 | Lost with all hands (49 men) when she foundered off the Hawaiian Islands. |
| USS Robalo (SS-273) | 26 July 1944 | Lost with 77 men by possible Japanese Mine off Palawan . 4 men survived as POWs but they were never recovered. |
| USS Flier (SS-250) | 13 August 1944 | Lost with 78 men 1944 when sunk by Japanese mine in the Balabac Strait south of Palawan. Eight men survived and were rescued. |
| USS Harder (SS-257) | 24 August 1944 | Lost with all hands (79 men) during a Japanese depth charge attack off Luzon, Republic of the Philippines. |
| USS Seawolf (SS-197) | 3 October 1944 | Lost with all hands (83 crew and 17 U.S. Army) when it was sunk by U.S. Navy destroyers just north of Morotai, Philippines. |
| USS Escolar (SS-294) | 17 October 1944 | Lost with all hands (82 men) by possible Japanese Mine in the Yellow Sea off China. |
| USS Darter (SS-227) | 24 October 1944 | Lost when it became grounded on Bombay Shoal off Palawan then was destroyed. All the crew was rescued by USS Dace. |
| USS Shark (SS-314) | 24 October 1944 | Lost with all hands (87 men) when it was sunk by Japanese surface craft in the channel midway between Hainan and Bashi. |
| USS Tang (SS-306) | 25 October 1944 | Lost with 78 men when it was sunk by her own torpedo in the north end of the Formosa Strait. Nine of the crew were taken prisoner and survived the war. Her Commanding Officer, Richard O’Kane, received the Congressional Medal of Honor. |
| USS Albacore (SS-218) | 7 November 1944 | Lost with all hands (85 men) possibly by Japanese mine between Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan. |
| USS Growler (SS-215) | 8 November 1944 | Lost with all hands (86 men) by a possible Japanese Surface attack in the South China Sea. |
| USS Scamp (SS-277) | 16 November 1944 | Lost with all hands (83 men) probably from progressive damage in multiple air and sea attacks east of Tokyo Bay. |
| USS Swordfish (SS-193) | 12 January 1945 | Lost with all hands (89 men) either by Japanesesurface attack or mine off Okinawa. |
| USS Barbel (SS-316) | 4 February 1945 | Lost with all hands (81 men) during a Japanese air attack off the entrance to Palawan Passage. |
| USS Kete (SS-369) | 20 March 1945 | Lost with all hands (87 men) after between Okinawa and Midway, cause unknown. |
| USS Trigger (SS-237) | 28 March 1945 | Lost with all hands (89 men) in the East China Sea during a Japanese air and surface attack. |
| USS Snook (SS-279) | 8 April 1945 | Lost with all hands (84 men) to unknown causes off Formosa. |
| USS Lagarto (SS-371) | 3 May 1945 | Lost with all hands (86 men) in the Gulf of Siam during a Japanese surface attack. |
| USS Bonefish (SS-223) | 18 June 1945 | Lost with all hands (85 men) when it was sunk in Toyama Wan in the Sea of Japan. |
| USS Bullhead (SS-332) | 6 August 1945 | Lost with all hands (84 men) off the Bali Coast bya Japanese air attack. |
| USS Cochino (SS-345) | 26 August 1949 | Lost with one man lost off the coast of Norway due to a battery explosion and fire. Six from USS Tusk (SS-426) were also lost. |
| USS Stickleback (SS-415) | 28 May 1958 | Rammed on exercises off Hawaii by USS Silverstein (DD-534). All crew safely evacuated prior to it sinking on 29 May 1958. |
| USS Thresher (SSN-593) | 10 April 1963 | Lost with all hands (129 men) off the New England coast. |
| USS Scorpion (SSN-589) | 22 May 1968 | Lost with all hands (99 men) due to unknown causes 400 miles southwest of the Azores in the Atlantic. |