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USS Tiger Shark

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ7874750 ↗
Source-derived summary

No ship of the United States Navy has ever borne the name USS Tiger Shark or Tigershark, but the name is popular for fictional submarines (although real submarines have been named USS Shark).

USS Tiger Shark is the setting for the 1951 movie, Submarine Command starring William Holden as a submarine captain haunted by a life and death decision made during wartime.

The 1959 sci-fi movie The Atomic Submarine is about a submarine named Tiger Shark.

USS Tigershark is featured in the 1995 episode of the television series JAG.

USS Tiger Shark is the setting for the 2002 suspense/horror movie Below.

See also

List of fictional ships

Ice Station Zebra (film) for a fictional U.S. Navy submarine named USS Tigerfish.

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“USS Tiger Shark” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tiger, Shark and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 1959, 1995, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tiger, Shark and Wikimedia.
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“USS Tiger Shark” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tiger, Shark and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7874750. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1959, 1995 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “USS Tiger Shark” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.