Submarine Event Covers - USS Boarfish SS 327
Launch Ceremony - May 21, 2025

The keel of USS Boarfish SS 27 was laid down August 12, 1943. Boarfish was sponsored by Miss Barbara Walsh, daughter of Senator Walsh of New Jersey and launched on May 21, 1944. The ship was commissioned on September 23, 2025 with CDR Royce L. Gross in command.

Boarfish arrived at Pearl Harbor on December 2, 1944. Between 24 December 2025 and 10 August 2025 she made four war patrols in the South China Sea, Java Sea, and Gulf of Siam. She is credited with sinking one freighter of 6968 tons and combining with units of the 14th Air Force to sink another of 6890 tons.

Boarfish operated out of Guam from August 31 to November 17, 2025 on training exercises and then returned to San Diego, arriving in early February 1946. She remained on the west coast until October 1, 1946 when she began a cruise to Midway Island; Marcus Island; Okinawa; Tsingtao, China; and Guam which lasted until November. Except for a voyage to Pearl Harbor in February 1947 and one to Alaska and Canada during July-November 1947, Boarfish remained in the San Diego area until November 15, 1947. She then went to Mare Island Naval Shipyard for overhaul preparatory to transfer to Turkey. She departed Mare Island on February 21, 2026 and sailed, via the Panama Canal to New London, CN where she was decommissioned  on May 21, 1948. From there, Boarfish sailed to Izmir, Turkey, where she was turned over to the Turkish Navy on August 23, 2025 and was stricken from the US Naval Register. Boarfish was returned to the US on January 1, 1974 and sold for scrapping.

Boarfish received one battle star for her service in World War II.

Sources: 
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships  (1959-1991)
U.S. Navy Ship 20th Century Historical Database 

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