U.S.S. Peto, First Submarine Built by the U.S. Navy on the Great Lakes

U.S.S. Pogy

Jack wrote a note on a message he received from a Jerry Bliss on the subject of the USS POGY and other Manitowoc-built submarines, Jan 10, 2006.  His note was "U.S. Navy submarines - manitowaoc, WI installed first submarine radar (SJ) 1942).  The letter from Bliss was a list of the vessesls build by Manitowoc and their histories.  Jack put check marks next to three:  the Peto, the Pogy, and the Pompom.  The checks probably mean that he installed radars on all three.  Here is a picture of the Pogy. 



So Jack probably installed the radar on the U.S.S. Peto.  Information about this submarine can be found at Peto."USS Peto (SS-265), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship ...named for the peto, a sharp-nosed tropical fish of the mackerel family.Peto was laid down on 18 June 1941 by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin; launched on 30 April 1942;" These two photos are of a piece in the state of Wisconsin that is in Jack's possession.  The handwritten material on the back was probably written by Jack in Nov. 2011.  The Wikipedia article on the Peto indicates that the Peto used sound and radar alone in one attack in which it shot three torpedoes, May 5, 1942.  The image of the launching below is from the Wisconsin Historical Society