page_title: USS Bluefish (SS-222)
hierarchical_section_title: USS Bluefish (SS-222)
caption_attribution_description: USS Bluefish; http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08222.htm Bluefish (SS-222), slides down the ways at the Electric Boat Co., Groton, CT., 21 February 1943. USN photo courtesy of http://ussubvetsofwwii.org.
context_page_description: USS Bluefish (SS-222), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bluefish. Between 9 September 1943 and 29 July 1945 she completed nine war patrols. Her operating area extended from the Netherlands East Indies to the waters south of Honshū. According to the notoriously unreliable JANAC accounting, Bluefish sank 12 Japanese ships totaling 50,839 tons.
context_section_description: USS Bluefish (SS-222), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bluefish. Between 9 September 1943 and 29 July 1945 she completed nine war patrols. Her operating area extended from the Netherlands East Indies to the waters south of Honshū. According to the notoriously unreliable JANAC accounting, Bluefish sank 12 Japanese ships totaling 50,839 tons.
caption: Bluefish slides down the ways at Groton, 21 February 1943.
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