USS Chub

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'''USS ''Chub'' (SS-329)''', a [[Balao class submarine|''Balao''-class]] [[submarine]], was a ship of the [[United States Navy]] named for the [[European chub|chub]], a game fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean. The name is also given locally to a wide variety of American fishes. She was later transferred to [[Turkey]] where she served as '''TCG ''Gür'' (S 334)'''.

==Operational history==

===USS ''Chub''=== SS-329, originally named ''Bonaci'', was renamed ''Chub'' on 24 September 1942 and launched 18 June 1944 by [[Electric Boat]] Co., [[Groton, Conn.]]; sponsored by Mrs. T. A. Risch; and commissioned 21 October 1944.

==== First war patrol, February – April 1945 ====

''Chub'' reached [[Pearl Harbor]] from [[Naval Submarine Base New London|New London]] 24 January 1945, and after final training, put to sea for action waters 13 February. Her first war patrol, in [[Tonkin Gulf]] and the [[Java Sea|Java]] and [[South China Sea]]s, found her skill and determination tried in four hairbreadth escapes from destruction.

On 3 March, she was attacked by an enemy submarine whose torpedoes she evaded. On 29 March, she began a long surface chase after an escort group, which she carried through the next day, even though forced six times to go deep by enemy aircraft. On their last pass, they dropped bombs, a clear indication that ''Chub'''s chase must be broken off.

The next day she was off [[Yulikan Bay]], and while American and [[Japan]]ese planes fought in the skies above, ''Chub'' rescued three downed pilots as they and she were strafed. With two Japanese patrol craft looming out of the harbor, ''Chub'' raced away. On 12 April, ''Chub'' was bombed by an enemy patrol plane as the submarine dove. Bomb damage caused a temporary loss of power, and with depth control lost, ''Chub'' broached. Fortunately, the aircraft had apparently dropped its entire load on the first run.

==== Second and third war patrols, May – August 1945 ====

''Chub'' put into [[Fremantle, Western Australia|Fremantle]], [[Australia]] to repair and refit from 18 April 1945 to 14 May, and then sailed for the Java Sea and her second war patrol. During this patrol, she attacked two freighters, and sank the [[Minesweeper (ship)|minesweeper]] ''[[Japanese minesweeper W-34|W-34]]'' which had come out hunting for her. The damage already done to Japanese shipping made targets few by this time, and ''Chub'' put into [[Subic Bay]] from 21 June to 15 July to refit.

Her third war patrol found her again in the Java Sea, sinking a number of small craft, although again and again attacked by the remnant of Japanese air strength. Returning to Fremantle 17 August, she sailed on to Subic Bay for training through the remainder of 1945, then returned to the West Coast.

==== 1946 – 1947 ====

During 1946, ''Chub'' operated from Pearl Harbor, her new home port, visiting the west coast for necessary overhaul. Between 12 November 1946 and 14 February 1947, she served in the Far East, making a simulated war patrol, and training with the [[US 7th Fleet|7th Fleet]]. During late 1947, she joined in a training cruise in [[Alaska]]n waters, and voyaged from [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]] to [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]] with reservists on board for training.

After overhaul at San Francisco she put to sea 4 March 1948 to call at New London, then crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] and [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] to [[İzmir]], [[Turkey]], arriving 11 May. She was decommissioned and struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] 23 May 1948.

==== Honors and awards ==== ''Chub'' received three [[battle star]]s for [[World War II]] service by reason of her three "successful" war patrols. She is credited with having sunk a total of 4,200 tons of shipping.

=== TCG ''Gür''=== The ex-''Chub'' was transferred to Turkey on 25 May 1948, and was commissioned in the [[Turkish Navy]] as TCG ''Gür'' (S 334). In 1953, she was converted to a [[Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program#Fleet Snorkel Program|GUPPY Fleet Snorkel]] Submarine, the work being done first in Turkey's [[Gölcük Navy Yard]] and completed in the United States.

''Gür'' was decommissioned on 12 December 1975, returned to U.S. custody, and sold for scrapping.

== References == {{Reflist}} {{Refbegin}} * {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c9/chub.htm|http://hazegray.org/danfs/submar/ss329.htm}} {{Refend}}

== External links == * {{navsource|08/08329|Chub}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20041025031504/http://www.turkishnavy.net/submarine/hist3.htm ''History of Turkish Submarines'' (1948–1972)]

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