page_title: USS Pampanito (SS-383)
section_title: Museum ship
hierarchical_section_title: USS Pampanito (SS-383) / Museum ship
caption_attribution_description: Sail and masts of USS Pampanito, photographed by the Epopt's wife. Photograph later edited by mav.
context_page_description: USS Pampanito, a Balao-class submarine, was a United States Navy ship, the third one named for the pompano fish. She completed six war patrols from 1944 to 1945 and served as a Naval Reserve Training ship from 1960 to 1971. She is now a National Historic Landmark, preserved as a memorial and museum ship in the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association located at Fisherman's Wharf.
context_section_description: Pampanito was turned into a memorial and museum at San Francisco on 21 November 1975, transferred to the Maritime Park Association (formerly the National Maritime Museum Association) on 20 May 1976, and opened to the public on 15 March 1982.
  In 1986, Pampanito was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and declared to be a National Historic Landmark.
  She is now owned and operated by the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association and is moored at Pier 45  in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf area, where she is open for visiting.
  The USS PAMPANITO Amateur Radio Club brings the radio room to life on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month using the callsign NJ6VT – NJVT was the boat's call sign during WWII. Ham radio operators may contact the boat on 7.260 and 14.260 MHz using voice, and on other frequencies using Morse Code.
  She flies a broom from her mast, indicating a clean sweep: a successful patrol that "swept the enemy from the seas." In total, she sank six Japanese ships and damaged four others with a total of more than 27,000 tons of enemy shipping sunk.
  Pampanito has completed four maintenance drydockings since becoming a memorial and museum. "The Pampanito still has several working parts, including one torpedo tube, the periscope, engines, galley and ice-cream maker." The museum runs educational programs including one that allows organized groups of children and adults to sleep overnight in the submarine's 48 bunk beds.
  The ship was closed to the public and moved to a dry-dock on 23 September 2016 and returned from Bay Ship & Yacht in Alameda, CA on 14 November 2016 and is currently open to the public.
  The Pampanito and SS Jeremiah O'Brien were threatened by a 4-alarm fire on May 23, 2020, but were rescued by local firefighters.
caption: Masts and conning tower, with broom and tree, in March 2003
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