USS Wahoo (SS-516)

USS Wahoo (SS-516)

USS "Wahoo" (SS-516), a "Tench"-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the wahoo, a dark blue food fish of Florida and the West Indies. Her construction by the Mare Island Navy Yard was authorized and her keel was laid down on 15 May 1944, but the contract for her construction was canceled on 7 January 1946.

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