Some More About the USS Sealion (SS-315)-- Part 1

From Wikipedia.

The USS Sealion (SS-315) was a Balao-class submarine and the second ship in the U.S. Navy with that name.  (The Balao-class of submarines was the largest class of submarines in the Navy with 120 ships.)  She was sometimes called the Sealion II, since there was an earlier one of that name sunk during the opening days of World War II for the United States in the Philippines.

As a matter of fact, the Sealion's first skipped, Lt. Commander  Eli Thomas Reich had also served on the first Sealion as executive officer.

The Sealion was the only U.S. and Allied submarine to sink an enemy battleship during World War II.

Her keel was laid down  on 25 February 1943 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut and was launched  on 31 October 1943.  Commissioned 8 March 1944.

--GreGen