High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Bowfin (SS/AGSS-287), Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the bowfin, a voracious, predatory fish native to the Great Lakes, the Mississippi valley, and nearby waters. Since 1981, it has been open to public tours at the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum Park in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, next to the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center.