Willis Ashford Lent, nicknamed "Pilly", was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. Serving as commanding officer of the Tambor-class submarine USS Triton during the Second World War, Lent made the first torpedo attack against the Japanese of the war.

USS Grenadier (SS-210), a Tambor-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grenadier fish, relatives of cod that are very common in bathyal and abyssal habitats.