USS Chivo (SS-341)
Biography
USS Chivo (SS-341) was a Balao-class diesel-electric submarine of the United States Navy, named for the chivo, or big-scaled goatfish, found in the Pacific between Panama and Mexico. She was built by the Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, laid down on February 21, 1944, launched on January 14, 1945, and commissioned on April 28, 1945 under Lieutenant Commander William R. Crutcher, USNR. After torpedo trials at Newport, Rhode Island, she left New London on June 7, 1945 for Key West and then Pearl Harbor. She was preparing for her first war patrol when hostilities ended, and she completed no war patrols. She operated locally from Pearl Harbor and then San Diego, served a tour from Subic Bay in 1946, and in August 1947 made a simulated war patrol to Fiji, Guam, and Japan. After a Guppy-type modernization at New London (October 1950-July 1951), she served with the Atlantic Fleet out of Key West and Charleston, including Mediterranean visits, and took part in the search for USS Scorpion (SSN-589) in 1968. She was decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register on July 1, 1971 and transferred to Argentina, where she served as ARA Santiago del Estero (S-22) until January 1981.
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Frederick W. Powers Collection
The Frederick W. Powers Collection documents Powers’s service as an Electrician’s Mate aboard the USS Pintado (SS-387) during World War II, his later military service and civilian engineering careers, and his continued connection to the Pintado after the war. The collection includes certificates and cards, personnel records, photographs, a sketch, correspondence, printed materials, and a DVD.