USS Sablefish
USS Sablefish (SS/AGSS-303), a , was a ship of the United States Navy named for the sablefish, a large, dark fish found along North America's Pacific coast from California to Alaska. Construction and commissioning Sablefish was laid down on 5 June 1943 by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company at their site in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was launched on 4 June 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Carol S. Burrough, wife of Captain Edmund W. Burrough, the former commanding officer of the light cruiser . Sablefish was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in Philadelphia on 18 December 1945. Service history Following a shakedown cruise from Naval Submarine Base New London in New London, Connecticut, to Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, Sablefish conducted type training in the Panama area until mid-May 1946. She then returned to her home port, New London, and spent the remainder of 1946 supporting antisubmarine warfare exercises off the United States East Coast, participating in fleet exercises off Bermuda, and making a three-week cruise off Greenland. Sablefish′s duty in 1946 established a pattern for her operations during much of her subsequent career. Highlights of her service for the next few years included testing a new type of submarine escape buoy in