page_title: USS Sturgeon (SS-187)
hierarchical_section_title: USS Sturgeon (SS-187)
caption_attribution_description: USS Sturgeon off Mare Island, 1943; http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08187.htm&#160;; Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 99230. Sturgeon (SS-187), off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 3 May 1943. Note the barrage balloon in the right background.
context_page_description: USS Sturgeon (SS-187), a Salmon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sturgeon. Its 1944 sinking of the Japanese troopship Toyama Maru, killing more than 5,000 Japanese, was one of the worst maritime disasters in history, and its 1942 sinking of the prisoner ship Montevideo Maru was the worst maritime disaster in Australian history.
context_section_description: USS Sturgeon (SS-187), a Salmon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sturgeon.  Its 1944 sinking of the Japanese troopship Toyama Maru, killing more than 5,000 Japanese, was one of the worst maritime disasters in history, and its 1942 sinking of the prisoner ship Montevideo Maru was the worst maritime disaster in Australian history.
caption: USS Sturgeon (SS-187) off Mare Island, 1943.
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