High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sirago (SS-485), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for sirago, a small fresh water tropical fish. Her keel was laid down on 4 January 1945 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. She was launched on 13 May 1945 sponsored by Mrs. L. Mendel Rivers, and commissioned on 13 August 1945 with Commander F. J. Harlfinger, II, in command. Commissioned at the end of World War II, Sirago conducted her shakedown cruise off the East Coast and in the Caribbean Sea during the fall of 1945. After shakedown, she joined Submarine Squadron (SubRon) 8 at New London, Connecticut, and, in January 1946, she proceeded to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she participated in the destruction of two German submarines.

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