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USS Chicolar (SS 464)

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Namesake
  
Chicolar

Class and type
  
Tench-class submarine

Fate
  
Cancelled

USS Chicolar (SS-464) would have been a Tench-class submarine, the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the chicolar.

The name Chicolar was assigned to the submarine SS–464, but construction was cancelled on 29 July 1944, before she was laid down.

Chicolar was also a fictional submarine in Edward L. Beach, Jr.'s novel Dust on the Sea

References

USS Chicolar (SS-464) Wikipedia