Manitowoc 28

USS Kraken (SS 370) 

Keel Laid – December 14, 1943

Launched – April 30, 1944

Commissioned – September 8, 1944

USS Kraken made four war patrols and earned one Battle Star. On her first patrol, Kraken rescued the pilot of a damaged Hellcat which crashed in heavy seas and sank a Japanese tanker on her third patrol. Kraken was decommissioned on May 4, 1946, and transferred to the Government of Spain on October 24, 1959, where she was renamed Almirante Garcia de Los Reyes (31).