USS Ulua (SS-428) [SEP] vessel class
USS Ulua
USS "Ulua" (SS-428), a "Balao"-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy named for the ulua, an important food fish of the tropical Pacific Ocean. She was never completed.
"Ulua"s keel was laid down on 13 November 1943 at Philadelphia by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company, but the curtailment of U.S. Navy construction programs in the closing days of World War II resulted in the suspension of further construction on 12 August 1945.
The partly completed submarine was launched on
Ulua
Ulua may refer to:
- Ulúa River
- San Juan de Ulúa, a complex located on an island of the same name in the Gulf of Mexico
- USS "Ulua" (SS-428), a submarine of the United States Navy
- "Ulua" (fish), a genus of fishes in the family Carangidae
- vernacular name of the species giant trevally ("Caranx ignobilis"), but not in genus "Ulua" proper
- Ulua people, an indigenous people in