USS Icefish (SS-367)
USS "Icefish" (SS-367), a "Balao"-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the icefish, any member of the family "Salangidae", small smeltlike fishes of China and Japan. These fish are also collectively known as whitebait. Construction and commissioning. "Icefish" was launched on 20 February 1944 by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Companyat Manitowoc, Wisconsin, sponsored by Mrs. Stanley P. Mosely, wife of Captain Mosely, and commissioned on 10 June 1944, Commander Richard W. Peterson in command. First patrol, September – November 1944. After trials and diving tests in Lake Michigan, voyages down the Mississippi, and shakedown  out of New Orleans, "Icefish" joined the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor 22 August. Assigned to Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood's Task Force 17 (Supporting Submarines Pacific Fleet), she joined "Banister's Beagle's" (consisting of Comdr. Alan B. Banister in and ) and departed 9 September on her first war patrol which took her into Luzon Straits and the South China Sea. October 1944 was a peak month in the war of U.S. submarines on Japanese shipping: 322,265 tons were sunk, and almost one-third of that total consisted of tankers. In October "Icefish" and "Drum" together sank 26,901  tons of enemy shipping in "Convoy College", code name for the area extending across the East China Sea from Luzon Strait to Formosa and the coast of China. "Icefish" sank a 4,000-ton cargo vessel on 23 October and on 26 October she was credited with sinking a transport of 10,000 tons. She terminated her first war patrol at Majuro, Marshall Islands, 13 November. Second and third patrols, December 1944 – April 1945. "Icefish" departed Majuro 8 December on her second war patrol in company with and . This patrol lasted 43 days with no results and she was forced to return  to Pearl Harbor 20 January 1945 due to materiel difficulties. The third war patrol began 20 February when she departed Pearl Harbor with "Sawfish" and . This patrol was also conducted in the East China Sea, northeast and east of Formosa. As the war was coming to an end and Japanese shipping had dwindled away largely due to the "Silent Service", "Icefish"'s third war patrol terminated after 60 days at Apra Harbor, Guam. Fourth and fifth patrols, May – August 1945. Her fourth war patrol was conducted in the Hainan, Hong Kong, Formosa, Siam Gulf, and Java Sea areas. This patrol  lasted 46 days with no contacts. Instead "Icefish" carried out another very useful function of U.S. Navy submarines during the later stages of the war. On 7 June with a PBY Catalina for air cover, she rescued six Army aviators off the coast of Formosa. "Icefish" arrived Fremantle 4 July for refit and sailed 29 July for her fifth war patrol. En route to station 7 August a small diesel lugger of 15 tons was intercepted. The crew consisted of two Japanese, two Eurasians, and five Chinese. One Japanese jumped overboard rather than be captured; the rest were taken on  board "Icefish". The lugger was sunk by gunfire. "Icefish" arrived Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, 22 August 1945, thus ending her fifth and last war patrol. She departed Saipan 1 September arriving San Francisco 18 September. "Icefish" decommissioned at Mare Island 21 June 1946 and jointed the Reserve Fleet. "Icefish" received four battle stars for World War II service. HNLMS "Walrus" (S802). Recommissioned at Mare Island 5 June 1952, "Icefish" transited the Canal Zone and arrived Groton, Conn., 14 July. She decommissioned there 29 July 1952 and received a GUPPY IB conversion. Recommissioned 10 December 1952 at Groton, she remained in that  area conducting various tests until 21 February 1953 when she was decommissioned and transferred to the Netherlands. She was commissioned in the Royal Netherlands Navy as HNLMS "Walrus" (S802), the first of that name. Formally returned to US Navy custody, she was struck from the US Naval Register, 15 July 1971, and sold for scrapping, 15 August 1971.