page_title: USS Bream
hierarchical_section_title: USS Bream
caption_attribution_description: USS_Bream; http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08243.htm Bream (SS-243) is seen here on 1 January 1962 off the coast of Hawaii. The fairwater has been streamlined and all guns removed. Also, she has been fitted with an enlarged sonar dome on her bow. USN Archives photo # USN-1039531. Courtesy of The Floating Drydock, Fleet Subs of WW II", by Thomas F. Walkowiak.
context_page_description: USS Bream, a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bream.
context_section_description: USS Bream (SS/SSK/AGSS-243), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bream.
caption: Bream (SS-243) is seen here on 1 January 1962 off the coast of Hawaii, in hunter-killer submarine (SSK) configuration. The fairwater has been streamlined and all guns removed. Also, she has been fitted with an enlarged sonar dome on her new bow, blunt for improved performance while dived.
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