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| | USS Hammerhead (SS-364) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | USS Hammerhead (SS-364), a Balao-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the hammerhead shark, a voracious shark, found in warm seas, with a curious hammerlike head. |
 | | Hammerhead departed Fremantle 21 June on her seventh and last war patrol, also carried out in the Gulf of Siam, in company with three other submarines. |
 | | Hammerhead was brought out of reserve during the Korean War, recommissioned 6 February 1952, and engaged in training duty on the West Coast between San Diego and San Francisco, Calif., until 21 August 1953. |
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