Name USS Tiburon Laid down Never Builder Boston Navy Yard | Namesake The tiburon, a shark Length 95 m | |
Fate Construction contract cancelled 29 July 1944 Class and type Tench-class diesel-electric submarine Displacement 1,570 tons (1,595 t) surfaced
2,416 tons (2,455 t) submerged | ||
USS Tiburon (SS-529), a cancelled Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tiburon, a large voracious shark found in the Caribbean Sea and along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Central America. Her construction by the Boston Navy Yard at Boston, Massachusetts, was authorized on 19 July 1940, but was cancelled on 29 July 1944.
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