When they raised the Squalus and got her back into service, they renamed her the Sailfish. All of the sailors who served on her knew her history though and called her the Squal-fish.
It's a case of renaming a ship not leading to bad luck; she survived the war and had 40,000 tons of sunk ships to show for it.
Or maybe it wasn't...the Squalfish sunk the Japanese aircraft carrier Chuyo which was carrying the survivors of the Sculpin (who was the boat who had found where the Squalus had gone down in 1939) as POWs. Only one of them survived the sinking.
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