High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Grouper (SS/SSK/AGSS-214), a Gato-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grouper, a salt-water fish noted as a gamefish and for its food values. Grouper was launched by the Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn., 27 October 1941 (sponsored by Mrs. Albert F. Church), and commissioned at New London 12 February 1942, Lieutenant Commander C. E. Duke in command. After shakedown in Long Island Sound, Grouper sailed for Pearl Harbor 30 March 1942 to join the Pacific Submarine Force which was to play havoc on Japanese shipping. Before departing for her first war patrol, Grouper was assigned to the submarine screen which ringed the area as the American and Japanese fleets clashed in the decisive Battle of Midway.

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