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Another monument in the Garden honors the USS Capelin (SS-289) lost during her second patrol during World War II. Capelin was built at the nearby Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The New Hampshire chapter of the Submarine Veterans of WW II provided and dedicated this monument on Memorial Day of 2006.
Laid down, 14 September 1942, at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME.; Launched, 20 January 1943; Commissioned USS Capelin (SS-289), 4 June 1943; Sunk on 2nd patrol, November-December 1943, in the Celebes Sea from unknown causes, all hands lost; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Capelin earned one battle star for her World War II service.
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