Uss Clamagore (ss-343)
Submarine of the United States in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. Added to the National Register in 1989, and a National Historic Landmark.
What it is
USS Clamagore (SS-343) was a Balao-class submarine, which operated as a museum ship at the Patriot's Point Naval & Maritime Museum outside Charleston, South Carolina from 1979 to 2022. Built in 1945 for the United States Navy, she was still in training when World War II ended. She was named for the clamagore. A National Historic Landmark, she was the last surviving example of a GUPPY III type submarine. On 15 October 2022, Clamagore, stripped of sail and superstructure was removed from Patriots Point and towed to Norfolk, Virginia to begin final recycling.
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The record
| Property type | Structure |
| Address | Patriot's Point, Mt. Pleasant, SC |
| County | Charleston County |
| Listed | Jun 29, 1989 |
| Reference number | 89001229 |
| Type of place | attack submarine |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark |
| Contributing resources | 1 structures |
The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗
Visiting
| Address | Patriot's Point, Mt. Pleasant, SC |
| Coordinates | 32.78978, -79.90756 · Directions ↗ |
| Nearest national park unit | Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park · 3 mi · on Park Atlas |
| Federal campgrounds nearby | Buck Hall Recreation Area 26 mi |
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Nearby in Charleston County
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Sources
Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 89001229. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.