USS Unicorn (SS-429)
USS Unicorn (SS-429), a
Tench-class submarine, was the first submarine of the
United States Navy to be given that name for the
narwhal, an Arctic marine
cetacean with a single tusk suggesting the horn of a
unicorn. The contract for her construction was authorized on
9 July 1942, and her keel was scheduled to be laid down by the
Cramp Shipbuilding Company of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but she was cancelled on
29 July 1944.
See USS Unicorn for other ships of the same name.
References
This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.