High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Billfish (SS-286), a Balao-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to bear the generic name for any fish, such as gar or spearfish, with bill-shaped jaws. Her keel was laid down at Portsmouth Navy Yard on 23 July 1942. She was launched on 12 November 1942 sponsored by (Mrs. Lewis Parks, wife of Lieutenant Commander Parks), and commissioned on 20 April 1943 with Lieutenant Commander Frederic Colby Lucas, Jr., in command. Between 12 August 1943 and 27 August 1945 Billfish made eight war patrols out of Pearl Harbor. During these patrols she sank three freighters totaling 4,074 tons and five smaller craft. Part of her seventh and eighth patrols were spent on plane guard duty off Japan.

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