Allied Warships

Ling (SS-297)

Submarine of the Balao class

USS Ling as completed.

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Submarine
Class	Balao
Pennant	297
Built by	Cramp Shipbuilding Co. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Ordered	24 Dec 1941
Laid down	2 Nov 1942
Launched	15 Aug 1943
Commissioned	8 Jun 1945
End service	26 Oct 1946
History	Decommissioned 26 October 1946. Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Assigned to Naval Reserve Training duty at Brooklyn, New York from March 1960. Stricken 1 December 1971. USS Ling was placed on permanent display as a memorial at Hackensack, New Jersey on 28 June 1972.

Commands listed for USS Ling (297)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. George Garvie Molumphy, USN	8 Jun 1945	Jan 1946

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The page dealing with the wartime history of USS Ling was created in May 2015.

This page was last updated in July 2023.

[No deck logs of this submarine are currently available to us so therefore some details, particularly regarding trials and exercises, might be missing on this page.]

8 Jun 1945
USS Ling (T/Cdr. G.G. Molumphy, USN) is commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard where she had arrived on 11 May 1944 for further outfitting.

6 Jul 1945
USS Ling (T/Cdr. G.G. Molumphy, USN) departed the Boston Navy Yard and arrived at the Portsmouth Navy Yard later the same day.

18 Jul 1945
USS Ling (T/Cdr. G.G. Molumphy, USN) departed the the Portsmouth Navy Yard and arrived at the Boston Navy Yard later the same day.

21 Jul 1945
USS Ling (T/Cdr. G.G. Molumphy, USN) departed the Boston Navy Yard and arrived at the Portsmouth Navy Yard later the same day.

26 Jul 1945
USS Ling (T/Cdr. G.G. Molumphy, USN) departed the the Portsmouth Navy Yard and arrived at the Boston Navy Yard later the same day.

29 Jul 1945
USS Ling (T/Cdr. G.G. Molumphy, USN) departed the Boston Navy Yard and arrived at Newport, Rhode Island later the same day for her torpedo discharge trials.

1 Aug 1945
Having completed her torpedo trials, USS Ling (T/Cdr. G.G. Molumphy, USN), arrived at New London Connecticut for further outfitting at the Electric Boat Company. She was still there when the war ended.