Allied Warships

Sea Fox (SS-402)

Submarine of the Balao class

USS Sea Fox as modified after the war.

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Submarine
Class	Balao
Pennant	402
Built by	Portsmouth Navy Yard (Kittery, Maine, U.S.A.)
Ordered	8 Jun 1942
Laid down	2 Nov 1943
Launched	28 Mar 1944
Commissioned	13 Jun 1944
End service	14 Dec 1970
History	Decommissioned 15 October 1952. Recommissioned 5 June 1953. Decommissioned, stricken and transferred to Turkey 14 December 1970 being Burak Reis (S-335). Stricken by thee Turkish Navy in 1996.

Commands listed for USS Sea Fox (402)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Roy Craig Klinker, USN	13 Jun 1944	29 Jul 1945

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Notable events involving Sea Fox include:

11 Sep 1944
With her trials and initial training completed USS Sea Fox (Lt.Cdr. Roy C. Klinker) arrived at Pearl Harbor.

24 Sep 1944
USS Blackfin (Cdr. G.H. Laird, Jr., USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour together with USS Charles R. Greer (Cdr. A. Jackson, Jr., USNR), USS Hemminger (Lt.Cdr. J.R. Bodler, USNR) and USS Sea Fox (Cdr. R.C. Klinker, USN).

25 Sep 1944
During 25/26 September USS Blackfin (Cdr. G.H. Laird, Jr., USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour together with USS Charles R. Greer (Cdr. A. Jackson, Jr., USNR), USS Hemminger (Lt.Cdr. J.R. Bodler, USNR), USS Connolly (Lt.Cdr. W.A. Collier, USNR), USS Allen (Lt. J.A. Rowe, USNR) and USS Sea Fox (Cdr. R.C. Klinker, USN). These exercises included night exercises.

4 Oct 1944
USS Sea Fox (Lt.Cdr. Roy C. Klinker) departed from Pearl Harbor for her 1st war patrol, and was ordered to patrol of the Bonin Islands. Later reassigned to patrol in the East China Sea.

8 Nov 1944
USS Sea Fox (Lt.Cdr. R.C. Klinker) torpedoed and sank the Japanese merchant cargo ship Keijo Maru (1051 BRT) in the East China Sea in position 29°05'N, 127°40'E.

24 Nov 1944
USS Sea Fox (Lt.Cdr. R.C. Klinker) ended her 1st war patrol at Majuro.

20 Dec 1944
USS Sea Fox (Lt.Cdr. R.C. Klinker) departed from Majuro for her 2nd war patrol. She was ordered to patrol of the Ryukyu Islands.

5 Feb 1945
USS Sea Fox (Lt.Cdr. R.C. Klinker) ended her 2nd war patrol at Guam.

8 Mar 1945
USS Sea Fox (Lt.Cdr. R.C. Klinker) departed from Guam for her 3rd war patrol. She was ordered to patrol in the South China Sea south of Formosa.

6 May 1945
USS Sea Fox (Lt.Cdr. R.C. Klinker) ended her 3rd war patrol at Pearl Harbor.

4 Jun 1945
USS Sea Fox (Lt.Cdr. R.C. Klinker) departed from Pearl Harbor for her 4th war patrol. She was ordered to patrol off the Bonin Islands.

23 Jul 1945
Around 1000K/23, USS Billfish (Lt.Cdr. L.C. Farley, Jr., USNR), USS Lionfish (T/Lt.Cdr. B.M. Ganyard, USN), USS Sea Fox (T/Cdr. R.C. Klinker, USN) and USS Tench (T/Cdr. T.S. Baskett, USN) departed Saipan for their patrol areas. They were escorted out until around 1445K/23 by USS LCI(L)-322 (Lt. W.L. Brown, USCGR).

At 2000K/23, USS Sea Fox parted company with the other three submarines.

Around 1735K/26, the three submarines encountered a large Task Group of Task Force 58. The submarines were joined around 1840K/26, by the destroyers USS Caperton (T/Lt.Cdr. W.P. Starnes, USN, USS Cogswell (T/Lt.Cdr. R.N. Perley, Jr., USN, with COMDESDIV 100, T/Capt. E.B. Dexter, USN, on board) and USS Knapp (T/Cdr. W.B. Brown, USN) which escorted them clear and then parted company around 2030K/26.

Around 0200K/27, USS Billfish and USS Tench set course to proceed to the Yellow Sea, USS Lionfish proceeded on towards her lifeguard station.

29 Jul 1945
USS Sea Fox (Lt.Cdr. R.C. Klinker) ended her 4th war patrol at Midway.