USS Turbot (SS-427)
USS Turbot (SS-427), a
Balao-class submarine, was the second ship of the
United States Navy to be named for the turbot, a large, brown and white flatfish, valued as a food. Her keel was laid down on
13 November 1943 at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by the
Cramp Shipbuilding Company, but the contract for her construction was cancelled on
12 August 1945. Her partially completed hulk was later
launched and, in
1950, was assigned to the Naval Ship Research and Development Center,
Annapolis, Maryland, where it was used for research and development in connection with the control and reduction of machinery noise in submarines.
See USS Turbot for other ships of the same name.
References
This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.