USS Sealion (SS-195)
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USS Sealion, a Sargo-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea lion, any of several large, eared seals native to the Pacific. The first American submarine v
USS Sealion (SS-195)
Japanese battleship Kongō
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Kongō was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. She was the first battlecruiser of the Kongō class, among the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built. He
USS Sealion (SS-195)
…on Sealion when it was sunk, assumed command of the second Sealion (SS-315) in March 1944. Four of the six torpedoes that Sealion II fired to sink the Kongō carried the names Foster, O'Connell, Paul and Ogilvie—the men who had been killed in the bombing of the first Sealion three years earlier. The sinking…
Kongō on sea trials, off the coast of Tateyama, 14 November 1936
Kongō on the ways at Barrow, showing two of the propellers and the port rudder, Scientific American, 1913
Kongō on full power trials 8 May 1913
Japanese battlecruiser Kongo as first built