USS Gurnard

USS Gurnard

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS "Gurnard", named in honor of the gurnard, a trigloid fish having three free pectoral rays, a food fish of the genus "Trigla". The striped gurnard inhabits the South Atlantic.

* The first "Gurnard", (SS-254), was a "Gato"-class submarine, commissioned in 1942 and struck in 1961.
* The second "Gurnard", (SSN-662), was a "Sturgeon"-class submarine, commissioned in 1968 and struck in 1995.


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