page_title: USS Salmon (SS-182)
section_title: 1943
hierarchical_section_title: USS Salmon (SS-182) / World War II / 1943
caption_attribution_description: USS Salmon (SS-182) Removed caption read: Photo # 19-N-42433 &#160;&#160;&#160; USS Salmon off the Mare Island Navy Yard, 22 March 1943
context_page_description: USS Salmon (SS-182) was the lead ship of her class of submarine. She was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the salmon, a soft-finned, game fish which inhabits the coasts of America and Europe in northern latitudes and ascends rivers for the purpose of spawning.
  Her keel was laid down on 15 April 1936 by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 12 June 1937 sponsored by Miss Hester Laning, daughter of Rear Admiral Harris Laning, Commandant of the 3rd Naval District and New York Navy Yard. The boat was commissioned on 15 March 1938 with Lieutenant M.M. Stephens in command.
context_section_description: Salmon departed from Pearl Harbor on 29 April 1943 for her sixth war patrol via Midway Island. She was assigned a special mission which took her to the coast of Honshū, Japan, at Hachijo-jima, Kajitorizaki (Kii Peninsula), and Izu Ōshima. During this mission, she damaged two freighters on 3 June and returned to Midway Island on 19 June.
  Salmon's seventh patrol was conducted in the Kuril Islands to cut the Paramushiro-Aleutian supply route. She departed from Midway Island on 17 July; sank a small coastal patrol vessel on 9 August, and, on 10 August sank the 2,411-ton passenger-cargo vessel, Wakanoura Maru off the northern coast of Hokkaidō. She returned to Pearl Harbor on 25 August.
  Salmon's eighth war patrol saw her return to the Kuril Islands where she was credited with damaging two freighters. This patrol lasted from 27 September to 17 November when she returned to Pearl Harbor.
caption: USS Salmon (SS-182), 22 March 1943
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