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USS Shark (SS-314), a Balao-class submarine, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the shark, a large marine predator. Construction began in 1943 and commissioning occurred in 1944. Following shakedown, Shark was deployed to the Pacific, where she attacked ships and rescued downed airmen.
No ship of the United States Navy has ever borne the name USS Tiger Shark or Tigershark, but the name is popular for fictional submarines (and real submarines have been named USS Shark). The fictional Tiger Shark in the film has the hull number SS-306, which belonged to USS Tang (SS-306) (lost in 1944).
Below (2002) – fictional USS Tiger Shark ; In Enemy Hands (2004) – fictional USS Swordfish and U-429; a.k.a. U-Boat; Ghostboat (2006) – mystery-thriller based on George E. Simpson and Neal R. Burger novel, directed by Stuart Orme, depicting fictional HMS Scorpion lost during World War II and resurfacing near the end of the Cold War
Arisan Maru – sunk by USS Shark or USS Snook 24 October 1944. [5] [6] 1,773 U.S. POWs killed. Asaka Maru - left Keppel Harbour, Singapore, on 4 July 1944. Wrecked in a storm between Luzon and Formosa. Survivors were rescued by two Japanese navy destroyers, and boarded the Hakusan Maru which arrived in Moji
The godfather of all shark movies, Jaws was a film marvel at the time of its release in 1975. And if you really feel like diving (hehe) into the world of Jaws' Amity Island, you can also check out ...
On October 24, 1944, the Arisan Maru was transporting 1,781 U.S. and Allied military and civilian POWs when it was hit by a torpedo from a U.S. submarine (either USS Shark or USS Snook), at about 5:00 p.m.; it finally sank about 7:00 p.m. No POWs were killed by the torpedo strikes, and nearly all were able to escape from the ship's holds, but ...
In August 1943, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Tiger Shark patrols the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Receiving orders to pick up survivors spotted adrift by a British PBY Catalina patrol plane, the submarine rescues three survivors – British nurse Claire Paige, and two men, one of them wounded – from British hospital ship Fort James, sunk two days earlier; one survivor blames a German U ...
In 2020, the 75th anniversary of the USS Indianapolis sinking filled Briggs with regret over questions he never asked. "He was one of 316 men, out of a crew of 1,195, who lived to tell his story.