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1944 U.S.S. Sennet SS-408 Submarine Launching Souvenir Tag
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1944 U.S.S. Sennet SS-408 Submarine Launching Souvenir Tag
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The picture shows a view of this 1944 U.S.S. Sennet SS-408 Submarine Launching Souvenir Tag. This launching badge is believed to have been saved by a Portsmouth Naval Shipyard worker. It was found in Maine with many others dating from 1943 to 1944 when many ships and submarines were built and launched to do battle in World War II. They had been hidden away since the 1940s until 2009. The submarine was launched from The Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard in Kittery, Maine.

This cardboard tag has its original black cord attached. It is imprinted in black and light gray on a silver background. The back side is identical. It pictures a United States Navy Submarine and it is marked as follows:

LAUNCHING
U.S.S. SENNET

The tag measures 1-3/4'' wide. It is in mint condition as pictured.

Below here, for reference, is some historical information on the U.S.S. Sennet SS-408 submarine:

U.S.S. Sennet (SS-408)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Career

Builder: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Laid down: 8 March 1944
Launched: 6 June 1944
Commissioned: 22 August 1944
Decommissioned: 2 December 1968
Struck: 2 December 1968
Fate: Sold for scrap, 15 June 1973

General characteristics

Class and type: Balao class diesel electric submarine
Displacement: 1,526 tons (1,550 t) surfaced, 2,401 tons (2,440 t) submerged
Length: 311 ft. 8 in. (95.0 m)
Beam: 27 ft. 3 in. (8.3 m)
Draft: 16 ft. 10 in. (5.1 m) maximum
Propulsion: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8, 10 cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators, 2 126-cell Sargo batteries, 2 low speed direct drive Elliott electric motors, two propellers, 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced, 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
Speed: 20.25 knots (38 km/h) surfaced, 8.75 knots (16 km/h) submerged
Range: 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Endurance: 48 hours at 2 knots (3.7 km/h) submerged, 75 days on patrol
Test depth: 400 ft. (120 m)
Complement: 10 officers, 70 - 71 enlisted
Armament: 10 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft), 24 torpedoes, 1 5-inch (127 mm) / 25Êcaliber deck gun, four machine guns

U.S.S. Sennet (SS-408), a Balao class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the sennet, a barracuda. Sennet was laid down on 8 March 1944 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine; launched on 6 June 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Roscoe W. Downs; and commissioned on 22 August 1944, Commander George E. Porter in command. Sennet was fitted out by 18 September. She held training exercises and torpedo tube testing off the coast of Connecticut and Rhode Island until 22 October. The submarine then tested mines and torpedoes for the Mine Warfare Test Station, Solomons Island, Maryland. On 11 November, Sennet proceeded to the operations area off Balboa, C. Z., and conducted further training exercises. The submarine departed Balboa on 29 November for Pearl Harbor and arrived there on 16 December 1944. Sennet's topside armament was increased to two 5-inch (130 mm) guns, two 40 millimeter guns, and three .50 caliber machine guns before departing Pearl Harbor for her first war patrol on 5 January 1945.

First and second patrols, January - March 1945

Sennet patrolled north of the Bonin Islands until 28 January. She made two attacks on a large tanker with three escorts on 21 January but scored no hits. The following week, the submarine sank one 500 ton picket boat and damaged another.

Sennet refitted at Saipan from 31 January to 7 February when she began her second war patrol off southern Honsh, Japan. On 13 February, two 300 ton picket boats were sunk by the combined gunfire of the USS Sennet, USS Haddock (SS-231), and USS Lagarto (SS-371). Three days later, the submarine attacked an enemy minelayer with an offset spread of torpedoes from her stern tubes and went deep, to 200 feet (60 m). Two torpedoes were heard to explode. While going deep, Sennet was rocked hard by two aircraft bombs which exploded beneath her. The submarine surfaced an hour later and saw a large oil slick and approximately 40 Japanese clinging to debris but no trace of Nariu which had sunk.

Third and fourth patrols, April - August 1945

Sennet was refitted by the USS Apollo (AS-25) in Apra Harbor, Guam, 9 March - 2 April. Patrolling off Honsh again from 3 April to 16 May, she was surfaced off Miki Saki on 16 April when she was twice straddled by torpedoes fired from patrol boats. Three days later, the submarine torpedoed and sank the cargo ship Hagane Maru. On 22 April, Sennet attempted to save a P-51 pilot who had bailed out near her but the man went under only 100Êfeet (30 m) from the ship. Attempts to find him were in vain.

A repair ship was attacked on 28 April with two electrical torpedoes. The first blew the bow off and the second hit under the mainmast. Hatsushima sank by her stern. On 1 May, Sennett fired five steam torpedoes at an Asashio class destroyer but it maneuvered and avoided them. At the end of this patrol, the submarine sailed to Pearl Harbor for upkeep and leave. The Sennet's most profitable patrol was from 1 July to 9 August in the Sea of Japan. During the patrol, she sank one passenger cargo ship, two cargo ships, and one tanker totaling 13,105 tons.

1945 - 1951

When the war ended in the Pacific, Sennet was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet and operated from New London, Connecticut. In June 1946, she was reassigned to Submarine Squadron 6 (SubRon 6) at Balboa, C.Z. From 10 December 1946 to 13 March 1947, Sennet participated in Operation Highjump, the third Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Sennet used the first basic under ice SONAR to establish the feasibility of United States under ice operations.

Sennet operated from Balboa until 1949 when she was assigned to operate from Key West, Florida as a unit of Submarine Squadron 12 (SubRon 12). The ship conducted training for submarine and antisubmarine personnel at Key West and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In 1951, Sennet was converted to a Fleet Snorkel submarine at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and returned to her homeport.

1954 - 1973

On 4 November 1954, Sennet departed Key West on her first deployment to the Mediterranean and service with the 6th Fleet. From her return on 30 January 1955, until 1 August 1959, the submarine conducted training, local, and fleet operations with her squadron. On the latter day, Sennett was reassigned to SubRon 4 and stationed at Charleston, South Carolina. For the next nine years, the submarine operated from Charleston with the Atlantic Fleet. She operated along the east coast, in the Caribbean, and in the Atlantic with her squadron until mid 1968. In November of that year, the submarine was found unfit for further Naval service. Sennet was struck from the Navy list on 2 December 1968. On 18 May 1973, her hulk was sold to Southern Scrap Material Company Ltd., New Orleans, Louisiana. Sennett received four battle stars for World War II service.

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1944 U.S.S. Sennet SS-408 Submarine Launching Souvenir Tag


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