the enemy in the Java Sea, her patrol was cut short when she received news of Japan's capitulation. Sailing for Subic Bay, she arrived 21 August. Kraken cleared Subic Bay 31 August 1945, touched at Pearl Harbor, and arrived at San Francisco 22 September. On 14 October she rendezvoused with Admiral William Halsey's 3rd Fleet and formed a part of honor escort for Halsey, as he passed under the Golden Gate Bridge in his flagship, . Ten days later Kraken visited Longview, Wash., for the first postwar Navy Day celebrations and returned to San Francisco 31 October where she was placed out of commission 4 May 1946 in the Pacific Reserve Fleet. Almirante García de los Reyes (S-31) Kraken remained in reserve status until 18 September 1958, when she was assigned to Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for activation overhaul and given a Fleet Snorkel conversion preparatory to transfer on loan to Spain. After several months of familiarization at Pearl Harbor for her new crew, on 25 October 1959 she was commissioned Almirante García de los Reyes, in memory of Don Mateo García de los Reyes (1862–1936), the Spanish Navy's pioneer in submarines. The ship's unusually long name posed a practical problem, so the abbreviation A. G. de los Reyes was often used. Originally designated E-1, she was redesignated S-31''' in 1961 to conform to the new, NATO-style numbering system adopted by the Spanish Navy. Almirante García de los Reyes was the only modern Spanish submarine in the 1960s (Spain, also had one German Type VIIC, Ex U-573, and 3 "insecure" and old Spanish D-class submarines), and was nicknamed "treinta y único" ("thirty only-one") and became almost legendary.A. G. de los Reyes's voyage via the Panama Canal to Cartagena, Spain took till late January 1960.García was decommissioned, 16 September 1974, sold to Spain, and struck from the US Naval Register, 1 November 1974. She was to have been cannibalized, but had to be overhauled and recommissioned, 1 September 1975, to replace , which had suffered a severe engine failure the previous spring and had to be stricken. García'' was finally decommissioned in April 1981, struck from the Spanish Navy list, 1 April 1982, and scrapped. Honors and awards Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal with one battle star World War II Victory Medal Philippine Liberation Medal See also List of submarines of the Spanish Navy References External links A. G. de los Reyes website