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USS Requin (SS/SSR/AGSS/IXSS-481), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named after the requin, French for shark. Since 1990 it has been a museum ship at The Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her keel was laid down on 24 August 1944 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. She was launched on 1 January 1945 sponsored by Mrs. Slade D. Cutter, and commissioned on 28 April 1945 with Commander Slade D. Cutter in command.

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Den USS Requin SS-481 was a Tench-class submarine that served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1968. It was the only ship named after the requin, a French word for shark. The Requin was built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, and launched on January 1, 1945. It was commissioned on April 28, 1945, under the command of Commander Slade D. Cutter, a highly decorated submarine officer. The Requin carried a heavier armament than usual for a fleet submarine, including two 24-tube rocket launchers and an extra 5-inch deck gun.
The Requin was assigned to the Pacific Fleet and arrived at Pearl Harbor in July 1945, but did not see any combat action before the end of World War II. After the war, the Requin was transferred to the Atlantic Fleet and underwent several conversions and modifications. It served as a sonar school ship, a radar picket submarine, an auxiliary research submarine and an experimental submarine. The Requin participated in various exercises and operations, including NATO maneuvers, antisubmarine warfare training, Project Nobska and Project Sea Scan. The Requin was decommissioned on December 2, 1968, and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on December 20, 1971. In 1990, it became a museum ship at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where it is open to the public for tours and educational programs.