Submarine Thresher (SS-200)

Thresher

Country	United States
Ship Class	Tambor-class Submarine
Hull Number	SS-200

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Thresher Operational Timeline

30 Dec 1941	American submarine Thresher departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for the Marshall Islands and the Mariana Islands region.
10 Apr 1942	USS Thresher sank a Japanese merchant ship 6 miles north of Oshima Island, Japan.
9 Jul 1942	USS Thresher sank Japanese torpedo recovery vessel Shinsho Maru off Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.
16 Jul 1944	Submarine USS Thresher (Lieutenant Commander D. C. MacMillan) fired 10 torpedoes toward Japanese convoy Tama 21C, en route from Takao in Taiwan to Manila in the Philippine Islands, sinking 2,838-ton Japanese transport Shozen Maru and fatally damaging 4,916-ton Japanese merchant ship Sainei Maru. USS Thresher's records claimed 6 hits and claimed the sinking of two transports and one destroyer.

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