- USS Whitefish (SS-432)
USS "Whitefish" (SS-432), a "Balao"-class submarine, was the only submarine of the
United States Navy to be named for the whitefish, a freshwater food fish closely related to thetrout andsalmon found in waters of the Northern Hemisphere. Her keel was to be laid down by theCramp Shipbuilding Company ofPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania , but the contract for her construction was cancelled on29 July 1944 .
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