USS Stingray (SS-161)

USS Stingray (SS-161)

USS "Stingray" (SS-161) is a fictional U.S. Navy diesel engine submarine featured in the 1996 comedy film "Down Periscope". The "Stingray" was played by USS|Pampanito|SS-383, a still-seaworthy World War II sclass|Balao|submarine|1 that is now a memorial and museum ship in San Francisco.

ee also

*, for real U.S. Navy submarines of this name
*, the real submarine that bore "SS-161", the fictional "Stingray"'s hull classification symbol
*List of fictional ships


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