Cabezon
A Saltwater fish of sculpin family inhabiting the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans.
SS-334:dp. 1,526; l.311’9”: b.27”3”; dr. 15”3 s. 20 k, cpl 66 a.:1 5”;10 21’’ tt. Cl Gato
Cabezon (SS-334) was launched 27 August 12944 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.; sponsored by Mrs. T.R. Cooley; and commissioned 30 December 1944, Commander G.W. Lautrup in command.
Cabezon departed New London, Conn., 19 February 1945 for Key West, FL, where she underwent 3 weeks of training and providing services for the Fleet Sound School. She then sailed via the Panama Canal to Pearl Harbor, arriving 15 March 1945.
From 25 May to 11 July 1945 Cabezon conducted her first war patrol in the Sea of Okhotsk, sinking a 1,631 ton Japanese cargo vessel on 19 June. She refitted at Midway until 4 August, then departed for Saipan to serve as target ship for surface force training exercising. From 7 September 1945 until 12 January 1946 she engaged in local operations and training in Philippine waters, based at Subic Bay.
On 6 February 1946 Cabezon arrived at San Diego operating from that port until her base was changed to Pearl Harbor. Subsequent to her arrival there on 20 November 1946, she participated in local operations and training cruises for submariners of the Naval Reserve there and on the west coast with intervening cruises to the South Pacific, the North Pacific, and across the Arctic Circle. She also made two cruises to the Far East, the second of which included a recoonnaissance patrol in the vicinity of La Perouse Strait, between Hokkaido, Japan and Sakhalin, USSR. She sailed for Mare island 21 April 1953 to start inactivation and was placed out of commissions in reserve there 24 October 1953.
Cabezon received on battle star for service in World War II. Her single war patrol was designated “successful.” She is credited with having sunk a total of 2,631 tons of shipping.