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Originally Posted by Wikipedia.com USS Gato article
She was the first Navy ship named for the gato, a species of small catshark found in waters along the west coast of Mexico. |
US submarines of that period were named after species of fish, and the USS Gato happened to be the first of the new class. So in turn the class was known as the Gato class. Which is far better than today's practice of naming submarines after the cities that Congressmen who push defense budgets through come from
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