On 2 December her chase was foiled by a float plane, which was driven off by Gato's gunners. Although she did not overtake the cargo ship, she did sight a convoy. She outran them while disposing of the depth charge by setting it adrift on a rubber raft. Gato discovered a live depth charge on her deck at the same time two enemy escorts were sighted headed in her direction. After two hours of dodging depth charges, she finally evaded her attackers, surfaced, and headed for Tingmon, the most likely port for the damaged cargo ship. She rescued a Japanese soldier from a life raft on 16 December, then attacked a convoy in the Saipan-Massau traffic lanes four days later to sink cargo ship Tsuneshima Maru and scored damaging hits on another freighter. On 30 November she made a coordinated attack with Ray, sinking the cargo ship Columbia Maru. Her seventh war patrol (18 November 1943 – 10 January 1944) took her north of the Bismarck Archipelago. En route on 19 October she attacked a convoy, scoring hits for unknown damage to two large cargo ships. Gato was routed onward to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for overhaul returned to Pearl Harbor 22 August 1943 and conducted her sixth war patrol (6 September – 28 October) via Truk and Bougainville in the Solomons to Brisbane. Sixth and seventh war patrols, August 1943 – January 1944 Gato landed more Australian commandos at Toep Harbor 29 May, transported more evacuees to Ramos Island, and then reconnoitered off Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands before putting in at Pearl Harbor 6 June 1943. During a submerged radar attack approach 4 April 1943, between Tanga and Lihir Islands, she was shaken so violently by three exploding depth charges that she returned to Brisbane for temporary repairs 11 to 20 April. On her fifth war patrol (19 March – 6 June 1943), she landed an Australian Intelligence party at Toep, Bougainville, 29 March 1943, and evacuated 27 children, nine mothers, and three nuns, transferring them 31 March to the submarine chaser SC-531 off Ramos, Florida Island. This patrol terminated at Brisbane, Australia, 23 December 1942.įourth and fifth war patrols, January – June 1943 ĭuring her fourth war patrol (13 January 1943 – 26 February 1943), Gato torpedoed and sank transport Kenkon Maru 21 January cargo ship Nichiun Maru on 29 January and cargo ship Suruya Maru on 15 February-all off New Georgia, Solomon Islands. Her third patrol (4 September – 23 December 1942) included operations off Kiska then she steamed via Midway and Pearl Harbor to Truk atoll, where her attack 6 December on a convoy was broken off by aerial bombs and a severe depth charge attack by three destroyers. She obtained four torpedo hits with unconfirmed damage to a ship 15 August 1942, and terminated her patrol at Dutch Harbor, Alaska. On her second war patrol (2 July – 29 August 1942), she patrolled east of the Kurile Islands toward the Aleutian chain. Second and third war patrols, July – December 1942 On 24 May she was ordered to patrol the western approaches to Midway, taking station 280 miles (450 km) westward during the Battle of Midway. On her first war patrol from Pearl Harbor (20 April – 10 June 1942), she unsuccessfully attacked a converted aircraft carrier 3 May before being driven away by the fierce depth charging of four destroyers off the Marshall Islands. Ingersoll, and commissioned 31 December 1941.įirst war patrol, April – June 1942 Īfter shakedown at New London, Connecticut, Gato departed 16 February 1942, for Pearl Harbor via the Panama Canal and San Francisco. Louise Ingersoll, wife of Admiral Royal E. She was launched 21 August 1941, sponsored by Mrs. Gato′s keel was laid down 5 October 1940 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. 7 Eleventh and twelfth war patrols, January – June 1945.6 Eighth, ninth and tenth war patrols, February – September 1944.5 Sixth and seventh war patrols, August 1943 – January 1944.4 Fourth and fifth war patrols, January – June 1943.3 Second and third war patrols, July – December 1942.1 × 4-inch (102 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun.48 hours at 2 knots (4 km/h) submerged.4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears ġ1,000 nm (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h).4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 Diesel engines driving electric generators.For other ships with the same name, see USS Gato.Įlectric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
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