| Year | Date | Historical Events |
| 1943 | Feb 5 | Keel laid down by the Electric Boat Co., Groton, CT. |
| | Oct 17 | Launched. |
| 1944 | Jan 24 | Commissioned with CDR. Wreford "Moon" Chapple in command.
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| | Jun 1 | Bream's war operations extended from 1 June 1944 to 15 June 1945. During this period she completed six war patrols operating in the Java, Celebes, Sulu, and South China Seas and the Gulf of Siam. She sank two Japanese vessels totaling 6934 tons.
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| | Jun 1 | (Cont'd.) In addition, Bream shared with Ray and Guitarro the destruction of a 6806-ton passenger-cargo vessel. |
| | Oct 23 | Bream made a daring surface attack on a Japanese formation, damaging the heavy cruiser Aoba.
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| 1945 | Jun 6 | Bream got underway from Saipan for Pearl Harbor, HI., enroute to the United States for overhaul. |
| | Jun 24 | Bream entered San Franscico, CA. for overhaul. |
| 1946 | Jan 31 | Bream was placed "Out of Commission, In Reserve", and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet. |
| 1951 | Jun 1 | From June 1951 to August 1952 Bream engaged in type training and services to the Fleet Sonar School, San Diego, CA. |
| | Jun 5 | Bream was recommissioned and sent to Submarine Squardron 3, Pacific Fleet. |
| | Jun 6 | From June 1951 to August 1952 Bream engaged in type training and services to the Fleet Sonar School, San Diego, CA. |
| 1952 | Sep 10 | Bream was placed "Out of Commission, In Reserve", at San Francisco, CA. |
| 1953 | Feb 18 | Bream was converted to an anti-submarine "hunter-killer" submarine and reclassified SSK-243. |
| | Jun 20 | Following recommissioning, Bream participated in all phases of peacetime submarine operations in the Pacific Ocean. |
| 1954 | Sep 1 | Bream conducted an Alaskan training cruise. |
| | Nov 5 | Bream returned to San Diego, CA. via Pearl Harbor, HI. Bream carried out operations off California. |
| 1955 | May 7 | Bream made another trip to Pearl Harbor, HI. during 7 May – 24 May 1955. |
| 1956 | Mar 6 | Bream's next departure from the West Coast was for a cruise in the Western Pacific, which terminated at San Francisco in early 1957.
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| 1964 | Feb 1 | Bream was reclassified Auxiliary Submarine AGSS-243. |
| 1969 | Jun 28 | Decommissioned. |
| | Nov 7 | Struck from the Naval Register and sunk as a target by Sculpin (SSN-590).
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