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| Year | Date | Historical Events | | 1943 | Jan 20 | Launched. | | | Jun 4 | Commissioned. | | | Jun 4 | Recommissioned. | | | Sep 3 | Capelin sailed from New London,CT. bound for Brisbane, Australia. | | | Oct 30 | Capelin departed on her 1st war patrol in the Molucca, Flores, and Banda Seas. | | | Nov 11 | Capelin sank a 3,127-ton Japanese cargo ship off Ambon Island.
| | | Nov 15 | Capelin returned to Darwin, Australia for refit. | | | Nov 17 | Capelin sailed on her 2nd war patrol,eager for new successes in the same area as that in which her first patrol took place. Capelin was never heard from again. | | | Nov 23 | Lost in the Celebes Sea, on her 2nd patrol, with 78 men lost.Cause of loss unknown. | | | Dec 9 | Decommissioned. |
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