USS Golet (SS-361)

USS "Golet" (SS-361), a "Gato"-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the golet, a California trout. Her keel was laid down by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. She was launched on 1 August 1943 sponsored by Mrs. Wiley, wife of United States Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin, and commissioned on 30 November 1943 with Lieutenant Commander James M. Clement in command.

"Golet" departed Manitowoc 19 December 1943 via the Mississippi River for New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving 28 December. After shakedown training at Panama and final battle practice in Hawaiian waters, she departed Pearl Harbor on 18 March 1944 for her maiden war patrol off the Kurile Islands chain, Southern Hokkaidō and Eastern Honshū, Japan. Severe combinations of fog, rain and ice were encountered and only one ship worth a torpedo came into view. This enemy proved too fast for "Golet" to gain torpedo range; she returned to Midway Island on 3 May 1944.

Lieutenant James S. Clark took command of "Golet", departed Midway Island on 28 May 1944 to patrol off northern Honshū, Japan, and was never heard from again.

"Golet" had been scheduled to depart her area on 5 July and was expected at Midway Island about 12 July or 13 July. She failed to acknowledge a message sent her on 9 July and was presumed lost 26 July 1944.

Japanese antisubmarine records available after the war revealed that "Golet" was the probable victim of a Japanese antisubmarine attack made 14 June 1944. These records mention that the attack brought up corks, rafts, and other debris and a heavy pool of oil, all evidence of the sinking of a submarine. See also List of U.S. Navy losses in World War II.

82 Sailors Killed

# George Robert Barlow
# Elwin Charles Barnes
# Richard Andrew Barta
# Edward Ludwig Bartz
# Donald William Beaulieu
# Donald Lee Belcher
# Carl McCasland Bickham
# Edward Richard Blackburn
# John Wilson Breunig
# John Warren Brown
# Joseph Alfred Butor
# Allan Harold Carr
# James Seerley Clark
# William Melvin Coram
# Robert Raymond Danko
# Walter Dearl Davidson
# Clifton Dowey
# Vinton Jordan Earle
# Willard Archie Edwards
# LeRoy Leo Germann
# Herbert C. Goetz
# George Leonard Gormley
# Joseph Frederick Greenhalgh
# Stanley Erwin Grumet
# Oliver Clark Guest, Jr.
# Robert Edward Hanley
# Robert Edwin Hardy
# Raymond Lavery Harville
# George Donald Hendley
# Robert Edward Hoffman
# Elmer James Hughes
# Jack Junior Humble
# Robert William Infalt
# Clarence Herman Johnson
# Walter Maurice Kane, Jr.
# John Kolbucar
# John Mike Koutsos
# Leo Richard Leinwand, Jr.
# Cecil Burton Leonard
# George James Lewis
# Glen Gordon Lockwood
# Horace Paul Lytle
# Clifford Leroy Martin
# William Evorn McCulough, Jr.
# Harry Bland McLaughlin, Jr.
# Ernest Wade Miller
# Gilbert Lee Millhouse
# Peter Paul Milus
# Solomon Joseph Numair
# Michael Parry
# Melvin Lars Peterson
# George Anthony Pinter
# Frank Rudolph Pograis
# Robert Charles Reichelt
# Arthur Judson Rockwood
# Julius Rose
# James Guy Rymal
# Walter Robert Sadler
# Arvale Elvin Schlemmer
# Ernest Ferdinand Schramm
# Clifford Edward Sederstrand
# Eugene Felix Sieracki
# Robert Anton Simandl
# Donald Bruce Smith, Jr.
# George Sterling, Jr.
# Arthur Robert Stone
# John Clinton Strout, Jr.
# William Gene Stull
# Jess Elmer Sturdivan
# Emil Horace Sutherland
# Woodrow Wilson Swartzback
# Alfred Horatio Tarr
# Roland N. Thompson
# Raymond Beverly Tinker
# Alexander Scammel Wadsworth, III
# Raymond Robert Walz
# John Harris Wesley
# Joseph Stanley White
# Ernest Edward Whitney, Jr.
# Roy Edgar Williams
# Walter Joseph Winkle
# Homer Don Wright

ee also

* List of submarines of the United States Navy

References

External links

* [http://www.oneternalpatrol.com/uss-golet-361.htm On Eternal Patrol: USS "Golet"]