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Posting date 20 January 2004

		The new street signs, like the old, display the names of the WWII-era submarines for which they are named. They also include the number of Sailors lost on those submarines and the date which those submarines were lost.
		Public Works Department put up approximately 175 new street signs to recognize the Sailors who were lost with their WWII-era submarines for which the streets were named.

While many American towns have a Main Street, Elm Street or use a letter of the alphabet to name their streets, Naval Submarine Base New London (SUBASE), a small town within a town, has taken a different approach. SUBASE's streets go by TRIGGER, GRENEDIER, SHARK and GROWLER, just to name a few.

In the past, a new Sailor or a visitor to the SUBASE may not have recognized the significance of these street names at first glance. Now with new street signs installed across SUBASE, there's more to these streets than just a name.

"These new signs will have a greater significance then the old signs because now it will give the people a greater appreciation of the history of the different submarines and a little remembrance of the Sailors who were lost," said Ltjg R.J. Kline, the Public Works Department operations officer. "They're still standard street signs, but we wanted to recognize all the Sailors who were lost. The new design is pretty concise and easy to read at a glance."

The new signs, like the old, show the names of the World War II-era submarines after which the streets are named. But now below the submarines' names, the signs also include the number of Sailors lost and the date the submarines were lost.

"It was a brilliant idea for (PWD) to put up these new signs," said Seaman Antuan Harris, from Naval Submarine School. "Before the new signs went up, the names didn't mean anything to me. I thought they were just names of the streets. Now I understand that (some) streets represent submarines that were lost, and I'll think about what happened back then. When I walk across the base, I'll stop and read the signs because they're more interesting now and I'm curious about them."

The Public Works Department began replacing approximately 175 signs across the base in mid-November. However, there are a few of the street signs that have not been replaced due to the fact that these submarines returned home to be decommissioned.

At the Navy's first and finest submarine base, there are numerous displays, such as the NARWHAL Guns outside the Morton Hall Gymnasium, to remind both today's and tomorrow's generations of submarine Sailors of the bravery of those who came before them.

The new street signs are one more way to honor those submariners who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.