Name USS Sculpin Laid down Never | Namesake The sculpin Length 95 m | |
Builder Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine (proposed) Fate Construction contract cancelled 12 August 1945 Class and type Tench-class diesel-electric submarine | ||
USS Sculpin (SS-494), a Tench-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sculpin, a spiny, large-headed, broad-mouthed, usually scale-less fish of the family Cottidae. Her construction by the Portsmouth Navy Yard was authorized but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 12 August 1945.
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