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Triton

Ship Designation: 
SS-201
Date Lost: 
Monday, March 15, 1943
Lost at Sea
As was common with the majority of submarine losses, the exact details of Triton’s loss are not known. ... On her final patrol, she was operating in the vicinity of Rabaul. She reported sinking two AKs in a convoy on March 7, 1943 and eight hours later, reported hits on two more. On March 11, she reported that she was still chasing the remains of the convoy. On March 13, Triton was warned that three destroyers were operating in her area, possibly on antisubmarine operations. The warning was acknowledged but nothing further was heard from the submarine or her crew of 74. ... Postwar analysis of Japanese records indicates that an attack by the three destroyers on March 15, almost certainly was the cause of her loss. Trigger (SS-237), operating about 10 miles from Triton’s position, heard a sustained depth charge attack in that direction at the time cited in the Japanese reports.

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 73

Namesort descending Service Branch
EM 3c Thomas Ashton USN
CEM William Ballou USN
Sea 1c Frank Barnes USN
CTM Edward Barton USN
MOMM 3c Louis Basso USN
F 1c Raymond Booth USN
CFC William Booth USN
EM 2c Stephen Boyd USN
MOMM 1c Werner Bruderer USN
MM 3c Arlyn Bush USN
SC 2c Frederic Christy USN
Sea 1c Virgil Clement USN
MOMM 1c Henry Coley USN
Sea 1c Jack Cooper USN
CCS Clarence Cotton USN
Lt Jack Crutchfield USN
OC 3c John Dabney USN
EM 1c Leonard Dotson USN
Lt John Eichmann USN
Sea 1c Joseph Fedorchak USN

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Prepared by: J.P. O’Hara, CDR, USN (Ret.)