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    USS Robalo (SS-273), a Gato-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the róbalo or common snook. Robalo′s keel was...
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    Common snook (redirect from Róbalo)
    submarines have been named for this species, USS Robalo (SS-273) and USS Snook (SS-279) in the Second World War and USS Snook (SSN-592) in the 1950s. Considered...
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    submarines, and finally assumed command of USS Robalo as a lieutenant commander. Kimmel was reportedly killed when Robalo was sunk off the island of Palawan....
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    14, 1968. His son, Manning, died after the submarine he commanded, the USS Robalo, was sunk near Palawan on or around July 26, 1944. The Kimmel family at...
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    viridis Lockington, 1877 The United States Navy, submarines named USS Robalo and USS Snook are named for the common snook. Richard van der Laan; William...
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    patrols 1943 − USS Robalo − 3 World War II Pacific patrols 1943 − USS Rock − sank 1 ship in 6 World War II Pacific patrols 1943 − USS Golet − 2 World...
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  • near Oahu September 20, 2017 USS Robalo July 26, 1944 Presumed to have struck a Japanese mine near Palawan Island May 2019 USS Stickleback May 29, 1958 Sank...
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    Chicago disaster USS Mount Hood (AE-11) – 1944 explosion of Navy ammunition ship in Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea USS Turner (DD-648)...
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  • Retrieved 1 February 2021. Cressman, Robert (2000). That Gallant Ship U.S.S. Yorktown (CV-5). Missoula, Montana, U.S.A.: Pictorial Histories Publishing...
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  • contracted Manitowoc to build a total of 28 submarines, plus the canceled USS Chicolar (SS-464). Before they built the submarines for the Department of...
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