High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Blackfish (SS-221), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the blackfish, any one of several small, toothed whales. She was launched on 18 April 1942 by Electric Boat Corporation, Groton, Connecticut (sponsored by the wife of Captain Henry de F. Mel), and commissioned on 22 July 1942, Commander Raymond W. Johnson in command. Blackfish was assigned to Submarine Squadron 50 (SubRon 50), United States Naval Forces in Europe, and on 15 October 1942 departed Montauk Point, New York on her first war patrol. From October 1942-July 1943, Blackfish completed five war patrols in waters extending from Dakar, West Africa, to the north of Iceland. She is credited with having sunk Patrol Boat No. 408 off the north coast of Spain on 19 February 1943.

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