Two ships of the
United States Navy
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have borne the name USS ''Trigger'', named in honor of the
triggerfish
Triggerfish are about 40 species of often brightly colored marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Balistidae. Often marked by lines and spots, they inhabit tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the world, with the greatest speci ...
, any of numerous deep-bodied fishes of warm seas having an anterior dorsal fin with two or three stout erectile spines.
* The first was a commissioned in 1942 and sunk in 1945.
* The second was a submarine, commissioned in 1952, stricken in 1973 and sold to
Italy
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.
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United States Navy ship names