- USS Whiting (SS-433)
USS "Whiting" (SS-433), a "Balao"-class submarine, was the only ship of the
United States Navy to be named for the whiting, a small European food fish. Her construction by theCramp Shipbuilding Company inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania , was authorized but the contract for her construction was cancelled on29 July 1944 .References
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