USS Rasher

[Undeadsailor]

USS Rasher Official Statistics 1942-1971

Keel Laid: 4 May 1942
Launched: 20 December 1942
Commissioned: 8 June 1943
Total number of war patrols: 8
Total number of days on patrol: 401
Total tonnage sunk: 99,901 (JANAC)
Tonnage damaged: 64,481 (ComSubPac)
Number of ships sunk: 18 (JANAC)
Special missions: Mine-Laying off Cochin, China, 4 January 1944
Wolf packs: with Bluefish, January 1944; with Raton, February 1944; with Bluefish, August 1944; with Finback and Pilofish, February-March 1945
Total nautical miles steamed: 122,655
Number of torpedoes fired: 165
Total number of dives: approximately 861
Decommissioned: 26 June 1946
Recommissioned: 22 July 1953, as SSR 269 (Migraine 3 radar picket conversion)
Decommissioned: 27 May 1971

USS Rasher Citations And Awards

Presidential Unit Citation for Patrols 1, 3, 4, 5
Seven Battle Stars: Patrols 1-5
Iwo Jima Operation; Okinawa Gunto Operation
Four Navy Crosses
Tweleve Silver Stars
Sixteen Bronze Stars
Six letters of commendation
one Navy and Marine Corps Medal
One Legion of Merit

USS Rasher JANAC Tonnage Totals

First Patrol: Capt. Edward Shillingford Hutchinson commanding
1.Kogane Maru Passenger-Cargo 9 October 1943 Tons 3,132 Location 3-36S, 127-44E
2.Kenkoku Maru Cargo 13 October 1943 Tons 3,127 Location 3-47S, 127-41E
3.Koryo Maru Tanker 31 October 1943 Tons 589 Location 1-25N, 120-46E
4.Tango Maru Tanker 8 November 1943 Tons 2,046 Location 00-22N, 119-44E

Second Patrol: Capt. Willard Ross Laughon commanding
5.Kiyo Maru Tanker 4 January 1944 Tons 7,251 Location 5-46N, 108-36E

Third Patrol: Capt. Willard Ross Laughon commanding
6.Tango Maru Cargo 25 February 1944 Tons 6,200* Location 7-46S, 115-09E
7.Ryusei Maru Passenenger-Cargo 25 February 1944 Tons 4,797 Location 7-56S, 115-14E
8.Nittai Maru Cargo 3 March 1944 Tons 6,484 Location 3-17N, 123-55E
9.Nichinan Maru Cargo 27 MArch 1944 Tons 2,750 Location 7-31S, 115-57E

Fourth Patrol: Capt. Willard Ross Laughon commanding
10.Choi Maru Cargo 11 May 1944 Tons 1,074 Location 3-30S, 126-06E
11.Anshu Maru Converted Gunboat 29 May 1944 Tons 2,601 Location 3-40S, 126-58E
12.Shioya Tanker 8 June 1944 Tons 4,000 Location 3-04N, 124-03E
13.Koan Maru Cargo 14 June 1944 Tons 3,183 Location 4-31N, 122-25E

Fifth Patrol: Capt. Henry Glass Munson commanding
14.Shiroganesan Maru Cargo 6 August 1944 Tons 4,739 Location 14-14N, 117-16E
15.Eishin Maru Cargo 18 August 1944 Tons 542 Location 18-16N, 120-20E
16.Teiyo Maru Tanker 19 August 1944 Tons 9,849 Location 18-09N, 119-56E
17.Taiyo Escort Aircraft Carrier 18 August 1944 Tons 20,000 Location 18-16N, 120-20E
18.Teia Maru Transport 19 August 1944 Tons 17,537 Location 18-09N, 119-56E

Total 99,901

*Seond vessel of that name sunk by the Rasher

From the Book: Red Scorpion The war patols of the USS Rasher
Pages 539, 541, and 542

[tedhealy]

Red Scorpion is a great book :up:

[ReallyDedPoet]

Good read:up:

[3Jane]

Rasher brings home the bacon :rotfl::rotfl:

[CCIP]

Rasher brings home the bacon :rotfl::rotfl:

And it likes to Tango :huh:

[geetrue]

17.Taiyo Escort Aircraft Carrier 18 August 1944 Tons 20,000


I bet it felt good to sink this baby ... :yep:

[NEON DEON]

Rasher brings home the bacon :rotfl::rotfl:

And it likes to Tango :huh:

This maybe Rasher but Charlie prefers a little Whiskey before he does the Foxtrot in November.;)

Wow! Rasher received 4 P U C s in only 8 patrols!

You would think stingy old JANAC could of gave 99 more tons to get her to one hundred thousand tons! :p

[Castout]

Yes good read indeed.

I'm into Maelstorm II. Very good read.

Considering the price it 's a must have(First U-boat flotilla by Lawrence *** is sold at US$50 here whereby Amazon sells it for US$34.99 and it just contains the war diary of all u-boats which doesn't give you a personal and very detailed story)

[Castout]

17.Taiyo Escort Aircraft Carrier 18 August 1944 Tons 20,000

I bet it felt good to sink this baby ... :yep:

:huh: Damn spoiler :shifty:

[Crosseye76]

lol

[Undeadsailor]

Updated March 30 2011

[Jan Kyster]

USS Rasher, War Patrol Reports

Part I http://issuu.com/hnsa/docs/ss-269_rasher_part1?mode=a_p

Part II: http://issuu.com/hnsa/docs/ss-269_rasher_part2?mode=a_p



Source: http://www.hnsa.org/doc/subreports.htm

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