The submarine with the P4 on the conning tower in the U.S.S. Tarpon. She carried the designation between September 1935 and March 1936. After that she was identified as SS-175. She conducted more than ten war patrols and sank more than 30,000 tons of shipping. She reported many Japanese ships while on patrols. Some of her last patrols were life guard duty, to recover downed pilots off Truk and other Japanese-held islands. At the end of the war she returned to New London, CT. She was towed to New Orleans, LA, where she served as a training boat until 1957. On August 26 1957 she was being towed to a scrap yard when she foundered off Cape Hatteras, NC.

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