USS Greenling (SS 213)

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS Greenling (SS-213), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the greenling, an elongate, fine-scaled fish found from Kamchatka to California. Greenling was laid down by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn. 12 November 1940, launch at 20 September 1941 (sponsored by Mrs. R. S. Holmes), and commissioned at New London, Conn., 21 January 1942, Lt. Comdr. H. C. Bruton in command. After shakedown training out of New London, Greenling departed 7 March 1942 for the Pacific. She arrived Pearl Harbor 3 April and sailed 20 April for her first war patrol, in the Marshall Islands and Caroline Islands.

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