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USS Dorado (SS 526)

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Name
  
USS Dorado

Launched
  
Never

Builder
  
Boston Navy Yard

Laid down
  
Date unknown

Length
  
95 m

Namesake
  
The dorado, also known as the dolphin fish or mahi-mahi

Fate
  
Construction contract cancelled 29 July 1944

Class and type
  
Tench-class diesel-electric submarine

USS Dorado (SS-526), a Tench-class submarine, was the second submarine of the United States Navy to be named for the dorado, the Spanish language name for the fish also known as the dolphinfish and the mahi-mahi. Her keel was laid down, but construction was canceled on 29 July 1944.

References

USS Dorado (SS-526) Wikipedia


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