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Photo # NH 98407:  USS Tullibee, photographed circa 1943

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USS Tullibee (SS-284), 1943-1944

USS Tullibee, a 1525-ton Gato class submarine built at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, was commissioned in mid-February 1943. She left the East Coast for the Pacific in May and began her first war patrol in July 1943. This took her into the Caroline Islands area, where she was rammed while attacking a Japanese convoy on 5 August. Despite her damage, Tullibee remained on patrol, later sinking one ship and damaging another. Her next mission, during September-November 1943, took her into the target-rich East China Sea. On this patrol she attacked two convoys, sank one freighter and used her deck gun to shell an enemy-occupied island.

In mid-December 1943 Tullibee left Pearl Harbor for her third war patrol, as a member of a three-submarine "wolf pack". Operating near the Marianas, the group unsuccessfully attacked a Japanese submarine and damaged the escort carrier Unyo, but its only sinking was the net tender Hiro Maru, which Tullibee torpedoed at the end of January. She was sent to the Palaus area for her fourth patrol, which began early in March. On the 26th of that month, while attacking a convoy, USS Tullibee was sunk when one of her own torpedoes apparently circled back and hit her. Only one Sailor survived from her crew of eighty officers and men.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Tullibee (SS-284).


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Photo #: NH 98407

USS Tullibee (SS-284)


Photographed circa 1943.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98408

USS Tullibee (SS-284)


Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 2 April 1943.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98409

USS Tullibee (SS-284)


Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 2 April 1943.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 620 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other view of USS Tullibee (SS-284). The following list features this image:

The image listed below is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: 80-G-46134
    USS Tullibee (SS-284), photographed circa 1943.
    Port broadside surface view, received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory 11 September 1944.
    Note: This image appears to be identical to Photo # NH 98407 (featured above), but shows the entire length of the submarine.


    Reproductions of this image should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The image listed in this box is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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