USS Grenadier

Last updated October 28, 2021

Two vessels of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Grenadier, named in honor of the grenadiers, a family (Macrouridae) of soft-finned deep-sea fishes with long, tapering bodies and short, pointed tails, also known as rattails.

The first USS Grenadier (SS-210), was a Tambor-class submarine, commissioned in 1941 and was scuttled in 1943.
The second USS Grenadier (SS-525), was a Tench-class submarine, commissioned in 1951 and struck in 1973.

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

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