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USS ''Spot'' (SS-413) was a ''Balao''-class submarine of the United States Navy, named for the spot, a small sciaenoid food fish of the Atlantic coast, with a black spot behind its shoulders. ''Spot'' was laid down on 24 August 1943 by the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, Calif.; launched on 19 May 1944; sponsored by Mrs. A. A. Gieselmann; and commissioned on 3 August 1944, Commander William S. Post, Jr., in command. == First patrol, December 1944 – January 1945 == ''Spot'' completed fitting out at Mare Island on 18 September and moved to San Diego for shakedown. After a yard period, the submarine sailed for Hawaii and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 14 November. Accompanied by , she got underway for the Marianas on 4 December. They were joined by en route, and the trio arrived at Saipan on 15 December 1944. Two days later, the hunter-killer group headed for the Yellow Sea. On 7 January 1945, ''Spot'' sank two small trawlers with her deck gun.〔(Lists guardboat No.2 Nichiei Maru sunk by USS Spot )〕 Four days later, she destroyed a small freighter by gunfire. On 13 January off Shanghai, the submarine sank two trawlers by shellfire, and she repeated the feat the next day. In a night sweep through the Elliott Islands on 18 and 19 January, ''Spot'' torpedoed a cargo ship and a tanker. As ''Spot'' came down the west coast of Korea, she sighted a small ship and fired her last three torpedoes. All ran shallow and missed. With only 1,300 rounds of 20 mm ammunition remaining, the submarine closed to and opened fire. The enemy made an unsuccessful attempt to ram. No one manned the Japanese ship's machine gun atop her pilot house; her top deck was in shambles; and the ship was dead in the water but not sinking.〔(lists merchant fishing boat Tokiwa Maru sunk by USS Spot January 20, 1945 )〕 ''Spot'' waited for an hour and then sent over a boarding party of seven men to plant demolition charges and search for intelligence material. After about ten minutes on board, the party had to abandon as the ship listed to port and sank by the stern. The boarding party was recovered and one Japanese prisoner taken. The submarine returned to Midway on 30 January for a refit and training period. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Spot (SS-413)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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