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1903 - PCU PIKE (later A-5) (SS-6) launched at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA; sponsored by Mrs. Frank Baker Zahm, the wife of the naval constructor at Union Iron Works.
1921 - PCU S-44 (SS-155) keel laid as S-44 at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, MA.
1936 - PCU POMPANO (SS-181) keel laid as POMPANO at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
1945 - PCU CHIVO (SS-341) launched at the Electric Boat Company, Groton, CT; sponsored by Mrs. R. E. Baldwin, wife of the governor of Connecticut.
1955 - USS TENCH (SS-417) ran aground off Cape Henry Lighthouse, VA.
1957 - Ex-PIKE (SS-173) sold for scrapping to A. G. Schoonmaker Company, New York, NY.
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