USS Angler [SEP] vessel class
USS Angler
USS "Angler" (SS-240), a "Gato"-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the anglerfish.
Her keel was laid down on 9 November 1942 by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 4 July 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Mary E. Drewry (née Metcalf), the wife of Congressman Patrick H. Drewry of the House Naval Affairs Committee, and commissioned at New London, Connecticut, on 1 October 1943, Lieutenant Commander
USS Cecil (APA-96)
USS "Cecil" (APA-96) was a "Bayfield" class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II.
Launched as "Sea Angler" by Western Pipe & Steel, San Francisco, California, under a Maritime Commission contract, the vessel was acquired by the Navy 26 February 1944 and renamed "Cecil" after a county in Maryland. She was placed in reduced commission 27 February, converted at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon, and placed in full