Blagg, Leonard Ode, EM2

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Service Details

Last Rank
Petty Officer Second Class

Last Primary NEC
EM-0000-Electrician's Mate

Last Rating/NEC Group
Electrician's Mate

Primary Unit
1940-1942, EM-0000, USS Bass (SS-164)

Service Years
1937 - 1942

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Personal Details

Home State

Arkansas

Year of Birth
1917

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Casualty Info

Home Town Booneville, AR	Last Address Booneville, AR
Casualty Date Aug 17, 1942
Cause Non Hostile- Died Other Causes	Reason Drowned, Suffocated
Location Atlantic Ocean	Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Golden City Cemetery - Golden City, Arkansas

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Last Known Activity:

While at sea on 17 August 1942, a fire broke out in the after battery room of the USS Bass (SS-164) and quickly spread to the aft torpedo room and starboard main electric motor, resulting in the death of 26 enlisted men by asphyxiation. Leonard Ode Blagg and 25 other enlisted men died from asphyxiation.

EM2 Blagg was originally buried at the Gorgas Hospital Morgue Cemetery (Row 6, Section C, Grave 16) in the Panama Canal Zone. His body was disinterred and returned to his family on March 18, 1948.

Comments/Citation:

Service number: 3757147

Submarine war patrols: USS Bass (SS-164) - 1st through 4th

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1940-1942, EM-0000, USS Bass (SS-164)

From Month/Year October / 1940	To Month/Year August / 1942
Unit USS Bass (SS-164) Unit Page
Rank Petty Officer Second Class	NEC EM-0000-Electrician's Mate
Base, Station or City Not Specified	State/Country Not Specified

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USS Bass (SS-164) Details

Career (United States)
Builder:	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Laid down:	20 October 1921
Launched:	27 December 1924
Commissioned:	26 September 1925
Decommissioned:	9 June 1937
Commissioned:	5 September 1940
Decommissioned:	3 March 1945
Struck:	10 March 1945
Fate:	Scuttled as a sonar target off Block Island, 12 March 1945
General characteristics
Class and type:	V-1 (Barracuda)-class composite direct-drive diesel and diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:	2,119 tons (2,153 t) surfaced, 2,506 tons (2,546 t) submerged
Length:	326 ft (99 m) (waterline), 341 ft 6 in (104.09 m) (overall)
Beam:	27 ft 6�?? in (9.4 m)
Draft:	15 ft 2 in (4.62 m)
Propulsion:	As Built: 2 × Busch-Sulzer direct-drive 6-cylinder 2-cycle diesel engines, 2,250 hp (1,680 kW) each, 2 × BuEng (MAN-licenced) 6-cylinder 4-cycle diesel auxiliary engines, 1,000 hp (750 kW) each, driving electrical generators, 2 × 60-cell Exide batteries, 2 × Elliott electric motors, 1,200 hp (890 kW) each Re-engined: 2 × BuEng (MAN-licenced) 6-cylinder 4-cycle diesels, 1,000 hp (750 kW) each, 2 × Ridgway motors, 2 × 60-cell Exide UH53 batteries, two shafts
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced, 9 knots (17 km/h) submerged
Range:	6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) @ 11 knots (20 km/h), 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 11 kn with fuel in main ballast tanks (bunkerage 90,935 US gallons (344,230 l)
Endurance:	10 hours @ 5 knots (9 km/h)
Test depth:	200 ft (60 m)
Complement:	As Designed: 8 officers, 80 enlisted 1931: 7 officers, 11 chief petty officers (CPOs), 69 enlisted 1938: 7 officers, 9 CPOs, 70 enlisted (1938) Conversion to Transport, 1943: 9 officers, 44 enlisted
Armament:	6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, two aft, 12 torpedoes; removed 1943), (as built) 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/51 cal deck gun (changed to 1 × 3-inch (76 mm)/50 cal 1928, removed 1943)

Type
Sub-Surface Vessel

Parent Unit
Submarines

Strength
Submarine

Created/Owned By

ET McPhillips, Thomas, Jr. (SS), ET3(SS)

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USS Bass (SS-164)

Delaney, Thomas Morris, CPO, (1937-1944)	GM	GM-0000	Gunner's Mate 1st Class
Brabham, Charles Edward, CPO, (1939-1944)	RM	RM-0000	Petty Officer Third Class
Parr, Thomas Sherman, PO2, (1936-1943)	SM	SM-0000	Petty Officer Third Class
Pleva, Stanley Walter, PO3, (1936-1942)	GM	GM-0000	Petty Officer 3rd Class
Wert, Woodrow Wilson, CPO, (1938-1960)	BM	Cox-0000	Petty Officer 3rd Class
Boucher, Ralph Irving, PO1, (1941-1945)	SC	SC-0000	Seaman Second Class
Boychulk, Thomas, S2c, (1941-1942)	S2c	S2c-0000	Seaman Second Class
Hawkins, William Paul, PO2, (1942-1945)	AS	AS-0000	Apprentice Seaman
Hawkins, William Paul, PO2, (1942-1945)	AS	AS-0000	Apprentice Seaman