a large Japanese convoy of 11 ships with four destroyer-type escorts. Three hits from a spread of torpedoes Raton fired blew apart one frigate, but Raton received a severe pounding from a prolonged depth charge attack before making her escape. A boarding party from Raton captured a small sailing vessel on 13 June 1944, taking 11 prisoners-of-war and scuttling the craft. On 17 June 1944, Raton sighted a small cargo ship, sinking it with one torpedo and rescuing nine survivors. Raton returned to Fremantle on 23 June 1944 for upkeep alongside the submarine tender . Fifth and sixth war patrols, July–December 1944 Raton′s fifth war patrol, conducted from 18 July to 10 September 1944 with a patrol area in the South China Sea off Luzon, gave her only one victory, a Japanese tanker left beached off Dasol Bay, in the Philippines on 4 August 1944. Raton had better luck on her sixth war patrol, which she began on 6 October 1944, again with a patrol area in the South China Sea. On the night of 18 October 1944, Raton slipped into the center of a nine-ship Japanese convoy for a surface attack. She fired both sets of torpedo tubes, her bow tubes at six overlapping targets and her stern tubes at a large cargo ship. Two merchant ships — Shiranesan Maru and Taikai Maru — sank, and another vessel was damaged. A final attack resulted in damage to another cargo ship. With her torpedo supply running low and a typhoon approaching, Raton pulled into Mios Woendi in the Schouten Islands for more fuel and torpedoes with which to finish the patrol. Leaving Mios Woendi 27 October 1944, Raton encountered a Japanese task group of two heavy cruisers and five escort vessels on 6 November1944. In a submerged attack, she scored three hits on the Mogami-class heavy cruiser , but did not put Kumano out of action. On 11 November 1944, Raton and the submarine attacked a four-ship Japanese convoy guarded by three escorts. In a surface action, Raton sank Unkai Maru and Kurasaki with four torpedoes. Then, both submarines fired torpedoes at the remaining auxiliary ships with unconfirmed results. With only four torpedoes remaining, Raton headed for the United States, arriving at San Francisco, Californnia, on 1 December 1944. Seventh and eighth war patrols, April–July 1945 On 13 March 1945, after an overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo,