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.