Name USS Eel Laid down Never | Namesake The eel Length 95 m | |
Fate Construction order cancelled 23 October 1944 Class and type Balao class diesel-electric submarine Displacement 1,526 long tons (1,550 t) surfaced, 2,414 long tons (2,453 t) submerged Builder General Dynamics Electric Boat | ||
USS Eel (SS-354), would have been a Balao-class submarine, the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the eels, an order of voracious, snakelike fishes, having a smooth, slimy skin and no pelvic fins.
Eel's construction was canceled on 23 October 1944.
The name USS Eel was used for a fictional U.S. Navy submarine in Edward L. Beach's 1955 novel Run Silent, Run Deep and its sequels, Dust on the Sea and Cold is the Sea.
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