No ship of the

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare, maritime military branch, service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful navy with the largest Displacement (ship), displacement, at 4.5 millio ...

has ever borne the name USS ''Tiger Shark'' or ''Tigershark'', but the name is popular for fictional

submarine A submarine (often shortened to sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. (It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability.) The term "submarine" is also sometimes used historically or infor ...

s (although real submarines have been named USS ''Shark''). *USS ''Tiger Shark'' is the setting for the 1951 movie, ''

Submarine Command ''Submarine Command'' is a 1951 American war film directed by John Farrow and starring William Holden, Don Taylor, Nancy Olson, William Bendix, and Darryl Hickman. It is notable for being one of the first films to touch on post traumatic stress ...

'' starring

William Holden William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film '' Stalag 17'' (1953) and the Pri ...

as a submarine captain haunted by a life and death decision made during wartime. *The 1959 sci-fi movie ''

The Atomic Submarine ''The Atomic Submarine'' is a 1959 independently made, American black-and-white science-fiction film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and starring Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Joi Lansing and Jean Moorhead, with John Hilliard as the ...

'' 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''.

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