USS Darter (SS-227)

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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 Darter (SS-227), a Gato class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the darter, any of many small American fresh-water fishes, closely related to the perch family. Her keel was laid down on 20 October 1942 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 6 June 1943 (sponsored by Mrs. E. B. Wheeler), and commissioned on 7 September 1943, Commander William Shirley Stovall, Jr. in command.