LOST WITH ALL HANDS - 03 APR 1943

Lost on 03 APR 1943 with the loss of 74 officers and men while on her seventh war patrol.

USS PICKEREL departed Pearl Harbor, HI, and after topping off with fuel at Midway Island on 22 MAR 1943, she headed for the Eastern Coast of Northern Honshu.

She was presumed lost somewhere off Honshu.

The exact cause of her loss has never been determined, but her operational area contained numerous minefields.