Clarence Budge Shepherd

Rank/Rate Machinist's Mate, First Class
Service Number 368 09 53
Birth Date February 21, 1911
From Paris, Idaho
Decorations
Submarine USS Nautilus (SS-168)
Loss Date August 16, 1938
Location Pier 3, Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Circumstances Died of burns suffered in engine room explosion

U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 about Clarence Shepherd
Name: Clarence Shepherd
Service Info.: MM1C US NAVY
Death Date: 16 Aug 1938
Cemetery: Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: P.O. Box 6237 San Diego, CA 92166
Buried At: Section B Site 33

USS Nautilus (SF-9/SS-168), a Narwhal-class submarine and one of the "V-boats", was the third ship of the United States Navy to officially bear that popular ship's name.[10] She was originally named and designated V-6 (SF-9), but was redesignated and given hull classification symbol SC-2 on 11 February 1925. Her keel was laid down on 10 May 1927 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard of Vallejo, California. She was launched on 15 March 1930 sponsored by Miss Joan Keesling, and commissioned on 1 July 1930 with Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Doyle, Jr. in command.

V-6 operated out of New London, conducting special submergence tests, until March 1931. She was renamed Nautilus on 19 February and given hull number SS-168 on 1 July. She proceeded to Pearl Harbor where she became flagship of Submarine Division 12 (SubDiv 12). Reassigned to SubDiv 13 at San Diego, California, 1935–1938, then re-homeported at Pearl Harbor, she maintained a regular schedule of training activities and fleet exercises and problems throughout the decade. In July 1941, she entered the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for modernization — radio equipment, external torpedo tubes,[9] re-engining (with Winton diesels),[11] and air conditioning — until the following spring.