Exhibit by Steve Shay Frame 1, Page 15

A History of the Submarines Built at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard

USS Tinosa SS-283
Gato class
Launched October 7, 1942

Upper: Tinosa corner card and Tinosa Type 9ruz cancel and with Vallejo, California machine cancel.
Lower: Post Card of Kamo Maru, sunk by USS Tinosa July 3, 1944.

Made twelve war patrols in the Pacific during World War II. Tied for 9th on honor roll (ships sunk) with 16 and 19th on honor roll (tonnage) with 64,655 tons. Decommissioned January 1947, recommissioned January 1952 for the Korean War, decommissioned December 1953. Scuttled off Hawaii November 1960.

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