Class: Gato Submarine
Launched: November 14, 1943
At: Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
Commissioned: February 29, 1944
Converted: 1952
Length: 307 feet
Beam: 27 feet
Draft: 18 feet (surface trim)
Displacement: 1,820 tons
Armament: Ten 21-inch torpedo tubes, one 4-inch/50 caliber gun; one 40 mm gun
Address for Visiting:
Galveston Naval Museum
Seawolf Park
Galveston, Texas 77552
Latitude: 29.3341735182, Longitude: -94.7787502634
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Address for Inquires:
Cavalla Historical Foundation
6341 Stewart Road, #249
Galveston TX, 77551-1880
Email: info@galvestonnavalmuseum.com
www.galvestonnavalmuseum.com
USS Cavalla was called “The Luckiest Ship in the Submarine Service” because of her outstanding performance during her short time in service before the end of World War II. She logged 90,000 miles, made 570 dives, and sank 34,180 tons of Japanese shipping. Her greatest sinking, during six war patrols, was the aircraft carrier Shokaku that had participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor. She was present in Tokyo Bay in September 1945 for the surrender signing aboard Missouri.
Cavalla was decommissioned in 1946 and returned to service in 1951 to be converted to a hunter-killer submarine (SSK). She was assigned the experimental designation AGSS in 1963. She was transferred to the U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II in early 1971, and delivered to her permanent berth later that year. She serves as a memorial to submariners lost in World War II.
USS Cavalla is a National Historic Landmark.
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