It is just an old sailor tradtion not to rename name a ship so long as it is in the same Navy so you could change the name if this ship went from the Navy to the Coast Guard. And if you belive in luck or not the Squalus/Sailfish did have the misfortune of killed her allies (even though the crew did not know POWs where aborad). in a strange way was it fate that a ceratin amount of men would die in realtion to the Squalus in some way shape or form its almost like it was Squalus was going to take the men that should have died inside her in 1939. Or could the bad arua around Squalus been so bad it even spread to the Sculpin two times over? Very weird if you sit and think about it.
Another old sailor thing. They used to think if you had a chicken and a pig tattooed on your feet it meant that youd survive if you went overboard or your ship sank. In the age of sail the crates they kept chickens in tended to stay afloat the longest.
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