Name USS Nerka Laid down Never | Namesake The nerka Length 95 m | |
Fate Construction contract cancelled 29 July 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 Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company | ||
USS Nerka (SS-380), named for the nerka, a lake and river salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Pacific Northwest, also called sockeye, sawqui, red salmon, and redfish, would have been a United States Navy Balao-class submarine. Her construction was authorized during World War II, but cancelled on 29 July 1944.
The name USS Nerka was used for a fictional U.S. Navy submarine in Edward L. Beach's 1955 novel Run Silent, Run Deep.
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