USS Stickleback (SS-415)

March 29, 1945 - May 29, 1958

Appeared in 1526 ts Immersed 2424 ts

95.0 meters

8.3 meters

4.6 meters

6 officers, 60 sailors

4x 1350 hp diesel engines 4x electric motors (total 2740 hp)

Surfaced 20.25 knots Dipped 8.75 knots

11,000 nautical miles at 10 knots

The USS Stickleback (SS -415 ) was a conventionally powered submarine of the United States Navy of the Balao class.

The boat was laid on May 1, 1944 in Vallejo, California, on Kiel and launched on January 1, 1945 from the stack. The name was chosen Stickleback, the English name for a fish belonging to the family of the sticklebacks. On 29 March 1945 the boat was placed in the Pacific Fleet in service under Commander Lawrence G. Bernard, godmother was Mrs. John OR Coll.

The first use led the USS Stickleback before the end of the Second World War to Japan, where she patrolled the coast. In this patrol boat took 19 shipwrecked on, provided them with food and medicine, and put it near the coast again. On September 28, it returned to stopover in Guam back to San Francisco back. After participating in a naval parade she was released on January 2, 1946 from active duty and assigned to the reserve fleet at Pearl Harbor.

It was put back into service as a training ship and transferred to San Diego and on the 6th September the same year. In 1952 it was converted to a Guppy IIA and she was transferred to the 7th Submarine Squadron Pearl Harbor on 26 June 1953.

After the end of the Korean War she served from February to May 1954 the support of the UN forces in Korea, then was a multi-year use as a training ship for the development of nautical attack and defense tactics. The Stickleback sank on May 29, 1958 during a training exercise after a collision with the USS Silverstein (DE- 534) in Hawaii and was deleted from the register of ships of the U.S. Navy on 30 June 1958.