The diesel-powered submarine Clamagore (SS-343) was commissioned at New London, Connecticut, and June 1945, a few weeks before the end of World War II. She spent Rick thirty year career operating out of Key West, Charleston at New London, Connecticut, being twice modified into a guppy III sub. Her late this 325 1/2 feet, displacement over 1,800 tons, its 820 knots on the surface, 10 to 17 submerged. Armed with 10 torpedo tubes, she carried a crew of officers and 72 men.