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Down Periscope began shooting on May 6, 1995, and finished on July 27. [4] USS Pampanito, a Balao-class submarine from World War II, now a museum ship and memorial in San Francisco, played the part of USS Stingray. The nearby Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet stood in for Naval Station Norfolk.
The first Stingray (Submarine No. 13), was a C-class submarine in commission from 1909 to 1919 that was renamed USS C-2 in 1911 and served during World War I. The second USS Stingray (SS-186) was a Salmon-class submarine in commission from 1938 to 1945 that served during World War II.
Pampanito played the fictional USS Stingray (SS-161) in the 1996 comedy film Down Periscope. Kelsey Grammer stars as the Stingray ' s commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge, and the film is set on the United States East Coast in the harbors at Charleston, South Carolina, and Norfolk, Virginia.
Down Periscope (1996) – comedy directed by David S. Ward, depicting fictional USS Stingray (SS-161) Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998) Phantom: The Submarine (1999), about fictional South Korea's first nuclear-powered submarine Phantom. On the Beach (2000) – fictional Los Angeles-class submarine USS Charleston (SSN-704)
Stingray spent her eleventh war patrol on lifeguard station for air strikes on Guam. On 11 June the submarine rescued a downed Navy aviator and the following day pulled two more airmen from the water. On 13 June, Stingray received word that a Navy airman was down approximately 500 yards (460 m) offshore. With shells exploding on either side of ...
USS Stingray – Balao-class submarine, Down Periscope, 1996 (no relation to the Salmon-class USS Stingray (SS-186)) HMS Surprise – British Royal Navy frigate, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, 2003; HMS Sutherland – 74-gun ship of the line, Captain Horatio Hornblower, 1951; Tasha – ocean liner, Anastasia, 1997
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Scheme of USS Pampanito (SS-383). The Balaos were similar to the Gatos, except they were modified to increase test depth from 300 ft (90 m) to 400 ft (120 m).In late 1941, two of the Navy's leading submarine designers, Captain Andrew McKee and Commander Armand Morgan, met to explore increasing diving depth in a redesigned Gato.