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USS Bluegill (SS-242)



USS Bluegill (SS-242), a Gato-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bluegill, a freshwater sunfish of the Mississippi River basin and Great Lakes. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut on 17 December 1942.



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