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Our Creed To perpetuate the memory of our Shipmates who gave their lives in the

pursuit of their duties while serving their country;

That their dedication, deeds and supreme sacrifice be a constant source of motivation toward greater accomplishments.

Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of America and its Constitution.

Hang on to your Hats

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To Continue what I started in January, these are the next two Congressional Medal of Honor winners from the Submarine Service. Commander Samuel David Dealey (also awarded the Navy Cross with 3 stars and the Silver Star)

Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Harder during her 5th War Patrol in Japanese-controlled wa-ters. Floodlighted by a bright moon and disclosed to an enemy de-stroyer escort which bore down with intent to attack, Comdr. Dealey quickly dived to periscope depth and waited for the pursuer to close range, then opened fire, sending the target and all aboard down in flames with his third torpedo. Plunging deep to avoid fierce depth charges, he again surfaced and, within 9 minutes after sighting an-other destroyer, had sent the enemy down tail first with a hit directly amidship. Evading detection, he penetrated the confined waters off Tawi Tawi with the Japanese Fleet base 6 miles away and scored death blows on 2 patrolling destroyers in quick succession. With his ship heeled over by concussion from the first exploding target and the second vessel nose-diving in a blinding detonation, he cleared the area at high speed. Sighted by a large hostile fleet force on the follow-ing day, he swung his bow toward the lead destroyer for another "down-the-throat" shot, fired 3 bow tubes and promptly crash-dived to be terrifically rocked seconds later by the exploding ship as the Harder passed beneath. This remarkable record of 5 vital Japanese destroyers sunk in 5 short-range torpedo attacks attests the valiant fighting spirit of Comdr. Dealey and his indomitable command.

Table of Contents

Commander’s Log pg.2 Book Review pg.3 Secretary’s Minutes pg.4 Corn from the COB pg.4 Treasure’s Report pg5 Chaplain’s Message pg.6 K4K’s pg.8 Corvina Crew Bio pg.10 Cover story pg.11 Shipmates on Eternal Patrol pg.13 Lost Boats in November pg.13 Booster Club pg.13

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Base Commander Dale Poe 843-6648

[email protected]

Vice Commander Rick Johns

392-1615 [email protected]

Secretary Mike Augenstein


Treasurer

Dave Aunkst 410-7266

[email protected]

COB Paul Young


Recruiting

Dennis Wiley 972-0388

[email protected]

Chaplain Ted Henson


Newsletter/Web Norm Peterson


Ad Hoc

Leif Larsen 972-0583

[email protected]

Assistant COB Dave Chute


Assistant Chaplain Marcedes Parsons


K4K Chairman

Bill Conklin 423-1451

[email protected]

Past Base Commander/POC Steve Salzman 703-887-8933

[email protected]

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Commander Eugene Bennett Fluckey (Also awarded the Navy Cross with 3 gold stars) Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Barb during her 11th war patrol along the east coast of China from 19 December 1944 to 15 February 1945. After sinking a large enemy ammunition ship and damaging addi-tional tonnage during a running 2-hour night battle on 8 January, Comdr. Fluckey, in an exceptional feat of brilliant deduction and bold tracking on 25 January, located a concentration of more than 30 enemy ships in the lower reaches of Nankuan Chiang (Mamkwan Harbor). Fully aware that a safe retirement would ne-cessitate an hour's run at full speed through the uncharted, mined, and rock-obstructed waters, he bravely ordered, "Battle station--torpedoes!" In a daring penetration of the heavy enemy screen, and riding in 5 fathoms of water, he launched the Barb's last forward torpedoes at 3,000-yard range. Quickly bringing the ship's stern tubes to bear, he turned loose 4 more torpedoes into the enemy, obtaining 8 direct hits on 6 of the main targets to explode a large ammunition ship and cause inestimable damage by the resultant flying shells and other pyrotechnics. Clearing the treacherous area at high speed, he brought the Barb through to safety and 4 days later sank a large Japanese freighter to complete a record of heroic combat achievement, reflecting the highest credit upon Comdr. Fluckey, his gallant officers and men, and the U.S. Naval Ser-vice. DLE Poe Commander =============================================================

Jim Gibson, one of our members, has written and self published a book of his life before and while in the Navy. It is very interesting and gives you a history of Jim’s time on both submarines and surface craft.

The book can be ordered by giving Jim a call at : (530) 245-4492

The price is $25.00 plus $4.00 postage.

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There were 29 members and guests present. The meeting was called to order at 1400 by Base Com-mander Dale Poe. After an Invocation, The Pledge of Alle-giance, reading of the USSVI Creed, Tolling of the Bell for Boats lost, and a moment of silent prayer for all departed. Introductions were conducted. Guests were: Ronald Smith, J.R. Stafford, Bill Holmes. Treasurer Dave gave his report. Chaplin Ted Henson gave his report. Newsletter/Web/POC Norm gave his report. He is still re-questing member photos of then and now. Recruiter Dennis gave his report: things are going well. Thank you Base members for continuing to assist. Kaps-4-Kids Bill reports: Visits to Renown and St. Mary's were canceled. We received a few contributions from private parties, Thank You!. The joint visit to Shriners Sacramento is on hold. They are not accepting new visitors at this time. We'll continue to pursue getting a visit there. Bill assisted our guest from last month to start a K4K program at his Base (Drum Base). Guest Speaker J.R. Stafford gave a presentation about the Vietnam Veterans event, March 30th at the Reno Events Cen-ter. There will be displays, outreach booths, and a luncheon. Group tables for the Luncheon are available for $800 (8 peo-ple). Individual tickets are $40. We will discuss Getting a group table. Unfinished Business: The base is still looking for a Coordinator for Lunch Bunch North. Wreaths across America clean-up happened a day before we heard about it. New Business: Veterans Legislature Day: Motion was carried to participate. We need volunteers. Contact Dale or Bill Conklin. The Base will participate in the Reno Rodeo 100th anniver-sary Parade. June 22nd. Western Region Roundup was discussed. If anyone is attend-ing, please forward a report to Dale. Good of the Organization: We need to start discussing the bi-annual Base yard sale. Please no clothing.

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The monthly Raffle and the 50/50 was held. After all subjects had been discussed, and a Benediction, the meeting was adjourned. 119th Submarine Ball was discussed. Closest available is in Monterey at the Naval Post Graduate School, April 6th. Nevada Veterans Memorial Plaza Groundbreaking is March 29th at 10:00. After all subjects had been discussed, and a Benediction, the meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully Submitted, Mike “Augy” Augenstein Base Secretary ===================================

Obey the speed limit

Sitting on the side of the highway waiting to catch speeding drivers, a State Police Officer sees a car puttering along at 22 MPH. He thinks to himself, "This driver is just as dangerous as a speeder!" So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over. Ap-proaching the car, he notices that there are five old ladies, two in the front seat and three in the back, wide eyed and white as ghosts. The driver, obvi-ously confused, says to him, "Officer, I don't un-derstand, I was doing exactly the speed limit! What seems to be the problem?" "Ma'am," the officer re-plies, "You weren't speeding, but you should know that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other drivers." "Slower than the speed limit? No sir, I was doing the speed limit exactly twenty-two miles an hour!" the old woman says a bit proudly. The State Police officer, trying to con-tain a chuckle explains to her that "22" was the route number, not the speed limit. A bit embar-rassed, the woman grinned and thanked the officer for pointing out her error. "But before I let you go, Ma'am, I have to ask, is everyone in this car OK? These women seem awfully shaken and they have-n't muttered a single peep this whole time," the of-ficer asks. "Oh, they'll be all right in a minute offi-cer. We just got off Route 142."

1. All account balances are available at the Base meetings. 2. Deposits for February: Base Meeting Raffle/BH Fund Proceeds $ 124.00 Booster Club 150.00 3. Checks issued in February: Norm Peterson/Reimburse Newsletter Postage 50.00 Reno Rodeo Association Parade Entry 15.00 ============================

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Binnacle List: Primo Quarisa, family and friends, Del Schwichtenberg, Dennis Wiley, Bill Noland, Paul Allen It is with heavy heart that I bring you the the very sad report of Primo Quarisa's passing. Primo passed out of this world and into God's loving care. As the late Billy Graham said, Primo is receiving his “reward”. If you have read articles about those who've come back from being pronounced dead, they all seem to experi-ence a unique sense of beauty and peace, traveling toward a brilliant light. All indications to me are, Heaven does exist. Understanding Heaven as I see it, everything is of beauty beyond our earthly knowledge. There is NO pain, sadness, heartbreak, or anything bad. That being true, Heaven is a place where everything is perfectly beautiful, total happiness, complete peace and a place of absolute love. We all know Primo and his unforgettable smile. Can you see that smile now? Yes, we will all miss him and are saddened by his departure from our presence. We can deal with that, but knowing Primo is at total peace, makes our load much lighter. Through live we all have our “down” times. I go to special places, in my mind, where there is totally good feel-ings. On the freeways in Los Angeles, I found that pulling off to a safe area, and putting myself in one of those special places, reduced my heart rate, lowered my blood pressure and relieved my stress level. I found relief by putting myself at the top of Heavenly Valley, on my snow skies, looking out over the Carson Valley, our beauti-ful Sierra Nevada Mountains, and down over our “Lake of the Sky”. You all know Rocky. All I have to do is reach over and touch him. Now, just bringing Primo's smile to mind, will always relieve me of any negative pressures. None of us will forget Primo's smile. Use it to make your life a little brighter. I know Primo would really ap-preciate that. God Bless you Primo and you can now “Rest Your Oars” my friend. Primo's service dates were 1950 to 1954/ Only boat was Aspro (SS-309)/ Qualified in 1952/ Left as EN3(SS)/ Joined USSVI 1/1/1990/ Was Corvina Base Plank Owner and first Treasurer/ Life & Hol-land Club member.

Primo was 88 (born is 1930). He and Della were married for 60 years.

Gary (wife Claudia) Quarisa and Daughter Gail (husband Scott) Manoukian

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

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Del and Mary Ellen SCHWICHTENBERG – Chatted with Mary Ellen and Del today and they both are doing well. Rocky and I stop by when we are in the “big city”. We always call first to insure we are not interrupting dinner. When you are in the Carson City area, give them a call and stop by if you have the chance. Rocky and I enjoy every visit. And Happy 97th Birthday Del Dennis Wiley and Lily – Nice to have seen Dennis at the last Brunch at La Posada Real. I had a nice visit with Dennis. Thanks Dennis, for sharing. Raoul (Bill) Noland and Zoe – I've contacted Bill and had a very informative visit with Bill, Zoe, Bev, and Bev's daughter Makela. I look forward to more chatting with Bill. He qualified the year I was born. UPDATE: Bill just got a pacemaker and Zoe is glad to have him for a few more years. I hope to visit soon. Happy Birthdays If Paul's Calender is correct, and I'm sure it is, the these shipmates had Birthdays in. February

• 1. Stu Stuart

• March

• 1.Michael Lee - 4

• 2. James Shipman - 6

• 3. Paul Young - 9

• 4. Dennis Wiley II - 10

• 5. Bill Desormier – Ted Henson -18

• 6. Jim Weaver - 23 I got to read Paul's file on Dennis recently. The question I have for Dennis is: Did you volunteer for all those duties? I was told NEVER to volunteer. But I did volunteer for submarine duty and really glad I did. One great thing, I got to do something very few other people would do, sink a perfectly good “SMOKE” boat. I never heard Diesel boats called that until reading the latest American Submariner. I hope you all enjoyed the last addition of American Submariner. There was more information in there than I am capable of comprehending. The cover depicts one of those events you might like to experience, and live through. 70 degree up-bubble??? I thoroughly enjoyed to reports on the work the Kap(SS) 4 Kind (SS) teams do. If you haven't gone on one of the visits, I know you are missing something very special. In this same issue was the article about the USS Corvina and the Memorial in honor of her and her crew. Be-cause of the history breaking smog created by the burning of California forests, I chose not to attend. I chose to view it when the Battle Borne Memorial event occurred later in the year, when the air cleared. What a beau-tiful tribute to our Lost Boat. I'm very proud of the effort you all put into this and the finished task you per-formed. Really a beautiful job, well done. Thanks Steve and crew. This last month has been filled with adventures I've had for the first time. Registering as a Lobbyist for the sec-ond time, but attending the Summit for the first time. It is very neat to learn about the Legislative procedure and now be an influential part of it. I thoroughly enjoy going into a session where a veteran issue comes to a vote, sitting there with 50 other veterans wearing their organization shirts, veteran vests and caps. In the Legis-lative session, 2017, out of the 37 issues selected, 29 went before the Legislature and 26 items passed. A very good record and that's largley due to veterans like you showing up at specific times to show legislators that these items are important to you. Bless you all, Ted Henson Corvina Base Chaplain

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The Corvina Base Kap(SS) 4 Kid(SS) Team mourns the loss of our Teammate,

Shipmate, and Friend Primo Quarisa. His smiling face and gentle demeanor

will be missed by the Team and the children we serve.

Sailor rest your oars

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KAP(SS) 4 KID(SS) TEAM VISITS ST. MARY’S MEDICAL CENTER AND RENOWN CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

On February 8 the K4K Team visited two toddlers at St. Mary”s, two-year-old Makenna and

three-year-old Sala. Both are adorable little girls who enjoyed seeing the pictures and receiv-

ing the gifts.

On February 22 we visited two children at Renown. Sixteen-year-old Kelly showed a lot of

interest and asked good questions. We emphasized to her that women assuming a larger role

in Submarine duty. Unfortunately, we could not take a picture of Kelly because her parents

were not present. Nine-year-old Anthony is a really bright kid. He had just read the history of

Pearl Harbor and was very interested in the role submarines played in the war and beyond.

Each child was presented with age-appropriate gifts along with caps and certificates designat-

ing them as “Honorary Submariners”.

Team Members Bill Conklin, Dale Poe and Rick Johns participated in the visits.

K4K Booster

List

Frank Urbani

Mike Augenstein

Paul Young

Terry Bolen

Bill Conklin

T. D. Gundy, LLC

Terry Sheldon-

Brown

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George Frederick Gabel,

Electrician’s Mate, Third Class

George was born on March 27, 1912 to Fred Gabel and May Louise Pries. I am not sure why, however, although he went by Fred, his

name, from the marriage certificate, was also George Frederick Gabel. George was born and grew up in Forest Park, Illinois, near Chi-cago.

I am not sure what happened to George’s parents but his death records show his home of record as Walworth, Wisconsin and his only

next of kin as his brother, Chester Robert Gabel, even though he enlisted through Chicago, Illinois.

George enlisted on October 26, 1942. Being in Chicago, he most likely went to boot camp in Great Lakes, where he would also have

gone to A school. I came to that conclusion due to the fact that the next record I could find was his reporting through the Mare Island Receiving Station to the USS Yorktown (CV-10) for transport to Hawaii on September 15, 1943 as an EM3. He was transferred to

COMSUBFORPAC for duty, four days later on September 19. George was received aboard the USS Corvina on October 15th. The

“Aloha” signature on the picture above indicates that this was probably the last photo of George. ================================================================================

William Peet Hemphill, Jr.

Radioman, First Class

William was born on September 23, 1913, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to William Peet Hemphill, Sr. and his wife Alice.

The family lived in a small house on Union Avenue. William’s father was in Real Estate and must have been successful,

because, by the 1930 Census, they were living in a large house in an upscale neighborhood on Oak Street.

By 1940, William at age 26 has completed three years of college but is now married to Marie, with a job as a salesman.

The young couple live on E. Fourth Street, still in Chattanooga. William registered for the draft in 1941 and then

enlisted in the USNR as a V-6 (Victory plus 6 months) on March 11, 1942.

On December 18, 1942, William reported aboard the USS R-20 (SS-97) which was a training submarine stationed in Key

West, Florida. While assigned to the R-20 he did TAD tours on board R-9 (SS-89) and R-5 (SS-82) both of who were do-

ing coastal patrols from Coco Solo to the Bahamas. While on board the R-20 William was advanced from RM3 to RM2

on May 1, 1943. He was then transferred to Submarine Base New London for assignment to new construction.

William was assigned to USS Corvina upon commissioning, August 6, 1943. He was aboard for the transit to Pearl Har-

bor and shortly before they embarked on their first war patrol, was advanced to RM1 on November 1, 1943.

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Frank Decker Hotz

Signalman, Second Class

Frank was born on December 6, 1921 in Reading, Pennsylvania, the only child of Charles and Maude Hotz. Frank lived, with his

parents, on Hoskins Place in Reading for his entire young life. Frank attended Reading High School where he was active in the Mu-

sic department, being a member of the school chorus and the Senior Orchestra, where he played the violin. In the picture below

he is second from the right in the second row. Frank graduated in 1939 and his yearbook picture and description tell what he was

like.

By 1940, Frank was working 44 hours a week as a Title Searcher. When war broke out and the draft became mandatory, he regis-

tered in 1942, but then in August enlisted in the Navy Reserve.

After training he reported to the R-2 for submarine training on May 19, 1943 as a Signalman Third Class. He was transferred to the

pre-commissioning crew of the USS Corvina on June 16 and then to the Corvina itself on commissioning. On October 15, Frank was

advanced to Signalman, Second Class.

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Hang onto your hats. Read this, it will amaze you. Not sure if the timing of this is accurate (2030)?? Our grand kids lives will be so different than ours, it'll be a different planet! Just think of the technology change in submarines in the last 50 years. Facts & Predictions! 1. Auto repair shops go away. A gasoline engine has 20,000 individual parts. An electrical engine has 20. Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are only repaired by dealers. It takes only 10 minutes to remove and replace an electric engine. Faulty electric engines are not repaired in the dealership but are sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them with robots. I am thinking...your electric engine malfunction light go on so you drive up to what looks like a Jiffy-auto wash, Your car is towed through while you have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a new engine. 2. Gas stations go away. Parking meters are replaced by meters that dispense electricity. All companies install electri-cal recharging stations. 3. All major auto manufacturers have already designated 5-6 billions dollars each to start building new plants that only build electric cars 4. Coal industries go away. Gasoline/oil companies go away. Drilling for oil stops. 5. Homes produce and store more electrical energy during the day and then they use and will sell it back to the grid. The grid stores it and dispenses it to industries that are high electricity users. A baby of today will only see personal cars in museums.

The FUTURE is approaching faster than one can handle! 1. In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 5-10 years and, most people won't see it coming. Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on film again?

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Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a time, before it became way superior and became mainstream in only a few short years. It will now happen again (but much faster) with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs.

Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution. 2. Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years. 3. Uber is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world. 4. Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties. 5. Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go-player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected. 6. In the U.S., young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM's Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So, if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, only omniscient specialists will remain. We can only hope!!!!!!!! 6A. Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, its 4 times more accurate than human nurses. 7. Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans. 8. Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self driving cars appeared for the public. Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted. You don't want to own a car anymore.. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving. The very young children of today will never get a driver's license and will never own a car. 8A. It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% less cars for that. We can transform former parking spaces into parks. 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide. We now have one accident every 60,000 mi (100,000 km), with autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 million mi (10 million km). That will save a million lives worldwide each year. 8B. Most car companies will doubtless become bankrupt. Traditional car companies try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a com-puter on wheels. 8C. Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; are completely terrified of Tesla. 9. Insurance companies will have massive trouble because, without accidents, the insurance will become 100x cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear. 10. Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood. 11. Electric cars will become mainstream about 2020. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electric-ity. 12. Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning impact. 13. Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that simply cannot continue - technology will take care of that strategy. 14. With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water. Desalination of salt water now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter (@ 0.25 cents). We don't have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water.

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2001

Harry Wellman CS1 (SS)

2002 Harry Sembagh EN3 (SS) Stanley Blair ICC (SS)

2003

Melvin Phillips ET1 (SS)

2004 Boyd Tieslau TM3 (SS) Russel Scofield TMCS (SS)

2005

Richard Burdette LT. (SS) Robert Rich EN1 (SS) Donald Campbell TM2 (SS) Francis Signore CSC (SS)

2006

Harold Lister EN3 (SS)

2007 James Avitt RM1 (SS)

2008

Larry Garrelts ETCS(SS) Melvin Schreckengost ET2 Charles H. Massie TM1 (SS)

2009

Wayne F. Garrett ET2 (SS) Elvin L. Morrison FTC (SS) Erick Bjorum CWO(SS)

2010 Norm Snyder EM1(SS) Charles Hyman MM2(SS) James T. Wright III Gordon Lane RMC(SS)

2011 Edwin V. Schalbert TMC (SS)

2013 Chester E. MacDowell TMI (SS) Gerald Stratton ENC(SS) Jerry D. Noma MM2(SS) Richard Ekenberg , ETC(SS) Richard C. Barringer SOSN(SS)

2014

Lowell Wapelhorst MOMM2(SS) Jack Quade SMSN(SS)

2015

Bert Skidmore YN2(SS) Frank Kenyon EM3 (SS) Walter Lewis IC1(SS) Bob Heaps IC2 (SS)

2016 James Jordan TMSN (SS) Herbert “Doc” L. Starmer: HMC (SS)

2017 Rudolph (Rudy) Massenzi Don Brown FTGC(SS) Joseph Casten EM3 (SS)

2018

Leonard (Lenny) Stefanelli QM1(SS) Lionel Schmidt STS1(SS)

2019

Primo Quarisa

James Gibson

R. Dennis Wiley

Danny McHugh

Bob Little

George Petershagen

Paul Young

Mike Augenstein

Jim Stuart

Bill Desormier

Terry Sheldon-Brown

Dan DeLorey

Mike Uva

Dave Aunkst

Frank Urbani

John Augenstein

Meetings are on the first Saturday of each

month at Denny’s Coffee Shop,

205 E. Nugget Ave. Sparks NV At 1400 hours.

The Corvina Base News is published monthly for the Corvina Base Members. Distribution is by E-mail along with 10 copies sent USPS. Submission of articles must be received by the 25th of the month. For any questions or corrections contact: Norm Peterson 775-322-5193 [email protected]

Lost Boats in March

USS F-4 [ex-SKATE] (SS23) lost on 21-Mar-1915 with the loss of 19 crew

when it foundered off Honolulu Harbor.

USS H-1 (SS-28) lost on 12-Mar-1920 with the loss of 4 crew when

it Grounded, Magdalena Bay, Mexico, was sunk in 9 Fathoms while being towed off

USS Perch (SS-176)

scuttled on 3-Mar-1942 30 Miles NW Soerabia, Java

60 crew were taken prisoner, 52 survived the war

USS Grampus (SS-207)

lost on 5-Mar-1943 with the loss of 72 crew when it was sunk in the Blackett Strait

USS Triton (SS-201)

lost on 15-Mar-1943 with the loss of 74 crew when it was sunk at 0° 09N; 144° 55E

USS Tullibee (SS-284)

lost on 26-Mar-1944 with the loss of 79 crew when it was sunk in operating area just north of Palau. (One man was taken prisoner and he survived

the war)

USS Kete (SS-369) lost sometime on or after 20-Mar-1945 with the loss of 87 crew when it was sunk somewhere be-

tween 29° 38N; 130° 02E and Midway.

USS Trigger (SS-237) lost on 28-Mar-1945 with the loss of 91 crew

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