Name USS Needlefish Laid down Never Launched 2016 | Namesake The needlefish Acquired 20B.C Length 95 m | |
Fate Construction contract cancelled 29 July 1944 Class and type Balao class diesel-electric submarine Builder Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company | ||
USS Needlefish (SS-379) would have been a Balao-class submarine, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the needlefish, any of a family of voracious elongate teleost fishes resembling, but not related to, the fresh water gars.
The name Needlefish was assigned to the submarine SS–379 on 23 August 1942, but construction was cancelled on 29 July 1944, before she was laid down. A fictitious USS Needlefish is mentioned in Edward L. Beach's novel Run Silent, Run Deep.
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