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USS Pompano (SS 491)

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Name
  
USS Pompano

Laid down
  
16 July 1945

Length
  
95 m

Namesake
  
The pompano

Launched
  
Never

Construction started
  
16 July 1945

Builder
  
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine

Fate
  
Construction contract cancelled 12 August 1945

USS Pompano (SS-491), a Tench-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the pompano, a marine carangoid living in the southern Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico coasts of North America. Her construction by Portsmouth Navy Yard was authorized on 29 August 1944 and her keel was laid down on 16 July 1945, but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 12 August 1945 with the end of World War II.

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USS Pompano (SS-491) Wikipedia