USS Pompano

USS Pompano

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS "Pompano", named for the pompano, one of the best of food fishes, a marine carangoid living in the southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America.

* The first, "Pompano" (SS-181), was a "Porpoise"-class submarine, launched in 1937 and lost in 1943.
* The second, "Pompano" (SS-491), was a "Tench"-class submarine. Her construction was cancelled in 1945.


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