USS Unicorn (SS-436)

USS "Unicorn" (SS-436), a "Tench"-class submarine, was the second submarine of the United States Navy to be given that name for the narwhal, an Arctic marine cetacean with a single tusk suggesting the horn of a unicorn. Her keel was laid down on 25 April 1945 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut,but the contract to build her was cancelled on 7 January 1946. However, it was reinstated on 26 February 1946 for "completion of specific items," and the boat was launched on 1 August 1946 sponsored by Mrs. William A. Rowan, and accepted by the Navy on 3 September. Towed to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on 15 September, the boat was moved to New London, Connecticut, two months later and assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. She remained out of commission, in reserve, until 29 July 1958, when she was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and sold for scrap.

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