Lost Boats - June
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died...rather we should thank God that such men lived...
~ George S. Patton
Lost on 20 JUN 1941 with the loss of 33 officers and men when it sank off Isle of Shoals, fifteen miles from Portsmouth, NH.
USS O-9 submerged at 0738 to conduct deep submergence tests and the boat did not surface thereafter but was crushed by the pressure of the water at a depth of 402 feet.
Lost on 19 JUN 1942 when it grounded off Amchitka Island.
She was on the surface in poor visibility, charging batteries, and drifted into the shoals. When she could not be freed and started listing, the captain transferred the entire crew to shore 400 yards away)in relays using a three-man rubber raft. The entire crew was subsequently rescued by a PBY Catalina aircraft.
Lost on 12 JUN 1943 with the loss of 42 officers and men near Key West, FL during a practice torpedo approach when Forward Battery compartment flooded. The cause was probably due to flooding through a torpedo tube.
The Commanding Officer and two other men on the bridge survived, as did eighteen crew members on liberty at the time of the accident.
Lost on 01 JUN 1944 with the loss of 83 officers and men near Matsuwa Island.
USS HERRING was on her eight war patrol and was conducting a surface attack when a shore battery spotted her.
In a counter-attack, the enemy shore batteries scored two direct hits on USS HERRING's conning tower and "bubbles covered an area about 3 miles wide, and heavy oil covered an area of approximately 15 miles."
Before being sunk, she had sank a freighter and a passenger-cargoman.
USS HERRING was the only US submarine to be sunk by a land battery.
Lost on 14 JUN 1944 with the loss of 82 officers and men.
On her second war patrol, Golet was presumed lost in battle with antisubmarine forces north of Honshu.
Japanese antisubmarine records available after the war revealed that Golet was the probable victim of a Japanese antisubmarine attack made 14 JUN 1944.
Lost on 18 JUN 1945 with the loss of 85 officers and men near Suzu Misaki.
USS BONEFISH departed Guam for her eighth war patrol as part of a submarine group for operations in the Sea of Japan. On the morning of 18 JUN 1945 USS BONEFISH received permission to conduct a solo patrol of Toyama Wan, Honshu. After sinking a passenger-cargoman, USS BONEFISH was subjected to a savage depth charge attack.
She was never heard from again.
USS BONEFISH earned three Navy Unit Citations.