USS Whiting (SS-433)
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USS Whiting (SS-433), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the whiting, a small European food fish. Her construction by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was authorized but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 29 July 1944.
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- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
