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USS Pickerel SS 177

Launching USS Pickerel SS 177
Launching USS Pickerel SS 177 (P-6)
July 7, 1936 at Electric Boat Corp., Groton, CT.
The destroyer USS Fox is in the background.
The Ships sponsor was Miss Evelyn Standley, daughter
of Rear Admiral William Standley, acting Secretary of the Navy,
who, along with his wife, attended the launching along with 4000 other guests..

USS Pickerel SS 177
USS Pickerel SS 177

San Diego, 1940
Moored alongside USS Holland (AS-3), from which
 the photograph was taken, the submarines are
 (from left to right): Salmon (SS-182); Seal (SS-183);
 Pickerel (SS-177); Plunger (SS-179); Snapper (SS-185)
 and Permit (SS-178). Aircraft Carrier in background is the USS Enterprise.

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