USS Trigger

USS Trigger

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS "Trigger", named in honor of the triggerfish, any of numerous deep-bodied fishes of warm seas having an anterior dorsal fin with two or three stout erectile spines.

* The first "Trigger" (SS-237) was a "Gato"-class submarine commissioned in 1942 and sunk in 1945.

* The second "Trigger" (SS-564) was a "Tang"-class submarine, commissioned in 1952, stricken in 1973 and sold to Italy.


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