USS Stingray (SS-161)
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USS Stingray (SS-161) is a fictional U.S. Navy diesel engine submarine featured in the 1996 comedy film Down Periscope. The Stingray was played by USS Pampanito (SS-383), a still-seaworthy World War II Balao-class submarine that is now a memorial and museum ship in San Francisco.
[edit] See also
- USS Stingray, for real U.S. Navy submarines of this name
- USS S-50 (SS-161), the real submarine that bore SS-161, the fictional Stingray's hull classification symbol
- List of fictional ships
