| Year | Date | Historical Events |
| | | When Albacore ended her patrol at Brisbane, Australia, she was credited with sinking one destroyer and a frigate for a total of 2,250 tons lost.
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| 1941 | Apr 21 | Keel laid down by the Electric Boat Co.,Groton,CT. |
| 1942 | Feb 17 | Launched. |
| | Jun 1 | Commissioned with LCDR. Richard Cross Lake in command. |
| | Jul 1 | Following shakedown, the submarine proceeded via the Panama Canal to Pearl Harbor, HI. (Exact date unknown) |
| | Aug 28 | Began her first war patrol which took her to waters of the north and northeast pass through the coral reef which surrounds the Truk Islands. |
| | Sep 13 | Albacore sighted two cargo vessels. Lake fired three torpedoes at the leading ship and two at the second. One or possibly two torpedoes hit on the first ship, but none struck the second. Albacore claimed to have damaged the leading vessel. |
| | Oct 1 | Albacore made a night surface attack on a Japanese tanker. She expended seven torpedoes and scored two hits. Although the tanker appeared to be low in the water, she was still able to leave the scene under her own power. |
| | Oct 9 | Albacore spotted a Zuikaku-class carrier escorted by a heavy cruiser and a destroyer but was depth charged by the escorts and forced to break off her pursuit. |
| | Oct 10 | Albacore attacked a freighter. One torpedo hit the mark and 12 mmutes after firing, the sound of two heavy explosions caused the submarine's crew to presume that they had downed the vessel.
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| | Oct 11 | Aloacore underwent a series of depth chargings all of which exploded close aboard. |
| | Oct 12 | Aloacore headed for Midway. Although she had had several opportunities to score during the patrol, Albacore was not credited with any damage to Japanese shipping. |
| | Oct 20 | Albacore arrived at Midway Island and commenced a refit. A new 20 millimeter gun was installed.
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| | Nov 11 | Albacore sailed for her second war patrol. Her assigned areas were the Roger St. George's Channel, New Britain, along the east coast of New Guinea to Vitiaz Strait, and the Dallman Pass off Madang Harbor, New Guinea. |
| | Nov 24 | Albacore spotted a convoy of two cargo vessels and their escorts. She maneuvered into position and fired two stern tubes but neither torpedo found it's target. |
| | Nov 26 | Albacore became the quarry. Two Japanese destroyers depth charged her. After a two-hour chase, the Japanese retired, and Albacore shifted her patrol area to Vitiaz Strait. |
| | Dec 13 | Albacore found three Japanese destroyers. She released a three-torpedo spread but again was unsuccessful. |
| | Dec 18 | Albacore was in the area of Madang, New Guinea. She discovered what seemed to be a transport and a destroyer. Albacore torpedoed the "transport," and it exploded in a mass of flames and sank. Albacore had in fact downed the light cruiser Tenryu. |
| | Dec 30 | Albacore put into port at Brisbane, Australia. |
| 1943 | Jan 20 | Albacore got underway to begin her third war patrol. Off the north coast of New Guinea, she spotted 11 targets in as many days. |
| | Feb 20 | Albacore encountered a destroyer and a frigate escorting a minelayer. Albacore fired 10 torpedoes and believed she had downed the destroyer and damaged the frigate. |
| | Mar 1 | In the following days, Albacore attacked one tanker, several freighters, and another destroyer. Of eight torpedoes expended during these actions, all missed their targets. (Exact dates unknown) |
| | Apr 6 | Albacore was briefly drydocked for repairs and underwent refresher training before sailing for her 4th war patrol. This time, her area was around the Solomon and Bismarck Islands and off the north coast of New Guinea. |
| | May 26 | Albacore returned to Brisbane, Australia . While Albacore was being refitted at that port, LCDR. Oscar E. Hagberg relieved LCDR. Lake as the Commanding Officer of Albacore.
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| | Jun 16 | Albacore was underway for her 5th war patrol and waters surrounding the Bismarck and Solomon Islands. During this patrol, she sighted three separate convoys and attacked two. |
| | Jul 19 | Albacore claimed to have damaged a transport, but the submarine failed to sink any vessels. |
| | Jul 23 | Albacore arrived back at Brisbane, Australia and began a refit alongside Fulton (AS-11). (Exact date unknown)
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| | Aug 23 | Albacore left on her 6th war patrol, to patrol roughly the same area as on her previous assignment. |
| | Aug 31 | Albacore spotted a Japanese submarine but was unable to press home an attack. |
| | Sep 4 | Albacore encountered a two-ship convoy protected by two escorts and sank one of the ships, Heijo Maru, with three torpedo hits made shortly after the initial contact. |
| | Sep 26 | Albacore terminated her patrol at Brisbane, Australia. |
| | Oct 12 | Albacore began her 7th war patrol. |
| | Oct 25 | Albacore fired six torpedoes at a large merchant ship but recorded no hits. |
| | Nov 6 | Albacore received a report of a convoy which had been spotted by Steelhead (SS-280), and began to search for it. |
| | Nov 8 | Albacore found the convoy and started to track it. However, a plane from the 5th Air Force bombed her and caused her to lose contact with the Japanese ships. She sustained no damage from this attack. |
| | Nov 10 | Albacore was again bombed by an American aircraft. All auxiliary power was knocked out, and the submarine was plunged into total darkness. She finally managed to return to the surface with her trim almost restored. |
| | Nov 12 | Albacore received orders to locate and attack the light cruiser Agano, which had been hit and damaged by Scamp (SS-277). Albacore found Agano and tried to attack, but Japanese destroyers held the submarine down with a four-hour depth charge barrage. |
| | Dec 5 | On her return to Brisbane, Australia, LCDR. James W. Blanchard relieved LCDR. Hagberg of command. |
| | Dec 26 | Albacore departed Australia on her 8th war patrol, to patrol north of the Bismarks. |
| 1944 | Jan 12 | She spotted her first target and sank cargo vessel Choko Maru with two separate torpedo attacks. |
| | Jan 14 | Albacore blew up the destroyer Sazanami with four shots from her stern tubes. |
| | Feb 22 | Albacore arrived at Pearl Harbor, HI. after making fuel stops in Tulagi and Midway. |
| | Feb 25 | After three days of voyage repairs, Albacore continued on to the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, Calif., for overhaul.
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| | May 5 | Albacore left Mare Island and held training exercises with Shad (SS-235) en route to Hawaii. |
| | May 13 | Albacore reached Pearl Harbor, HI. and spent the next two weeks on final repairs and training. |
| | May 29 | Albacore began her 9th war patrol and was assigned waters west of the Marianas and around the Palaus. |
| | Jun 11 | Albacore made only one contact a Japanese convoy which she encountered. However, before the submarine could maneuver into attack position, a Japanese aircraft forced her to dive and lose contact.
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| | Jun 18 | Albacore shifted to a new location 100 miles further south. Admiral Nimitz had ordered this move in the hope of enabling the submarine to intercept a Japanese task force under Admiral Ozawa reportedly steaming from Tawi Tawi toward Saipan. |
| | Jun 19 | Albacore found herself in the midst of Ozawa's main carrier group. Blanchard fired six bow tubes. One of the torpedoes had hit Ozawa's flagship, the 31 000-ton carrier Taiho. The Taiho eventually sank, carrying down 1,650 officers and men. |
| | Jul 2 | Albacore shifted over to intercept traffic between Yap and the Palaus. |
| | Jul 15 | Albacore put in to Majuro. Blanchard was awarded the Navy Cross after receiving credit for sinking the aircraft carrier Taiho. |
| | Aug 8 | After a refit alongside Bushnell (AS-15), the submarine began her 10th war patrol. Her assignment was the Bungo Suido-Kii Suido area. During this period, Albacore was credited with sinking two Japanese vessels, a cargo ship and a submarine chaser. |
| | Sep 25 | Albacore arrived at Pearl Harbor, HI. |
| | Oct 24 | Albacore left Pearl Harbor, HI., topped fuel at Midway on 28 October, and was never heard from again. |
| | Dec 21 | Albacore was assumed to have been lost. According to Japanese records captured after the war, a submarine assumed to be Albacore struck a mine very close to the shore off northeastern Hokkaido on 7 November. 86 men lost. |
| 1945 | Mar 30 | Struck from the Naval Register. Albacore won the Presidential Unit Citation for her second third, eighth, and ninth patrols and nine battle stars for her service during World War II. |