She made 10 war patrols total and is credited with sinking 14 ships, totaling 63,835 tons, including an Imperial Japanese Navy submarine. She sailed from Pearl Harbor on … On 24 February, Grayback radioed that she had sunk two cargo ships on 19 February, in an attack on Japanese convoy TAPA 02, sinking the army cargo ship Taikei Maru, and the army cargo ship Toshin Maru, that had rescued Taikei Maru's survivors, both cargo vessel's people being rescued by the … Grayback sailed from Pearl Harbor on 28 January 1944 for the East China Sea. The USS Grayback was discovered more than 1,400 feet under water about 50 miles south of Okinawa, Japan, in June by Tim Taylor and his "Lost 52 Project" team, which announced the finding Sunday. Grayback (SS-208) was laid down in 1940 in Groton, Connecticut by Electric Boat and commissioned June 1941—you can see pictures of her here. The wreck of USS Grayback was recently discovered in 1,400 feet of water off Okinawa, Japan, by an exploration team led by Tim Taylor..Please contact us if you are related to anyone who served on Grayback. USS Grayback (SS-208), a Tambor-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the lake herring. Grayback beneath 1,400 feet of water after realizing that a mistranslated Japanese war record had pointed searchers in the wrong direction. Private explorers found the U.S.S. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. USS Grayback SS-208 USS GRAYBACK MEMORIAL SERVICE JUNE 6TH, 2019 - Offshore Okinawa Japan *USS Grayback Crew, Jack Dewey Forward, Was lost in an airplane accident off Midway Island and not aboard the sub when it was lost. USS Grayback’s tenth patrol, her most successful in terms of tonnage sunk, was also to be her last. 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