Talk:USS Gato (SS-212)

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Provisional title

USS Gato's first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander William G. Myers.

What's the significane of the name Gato? Is it a type of fish, a placename or named after someone? I had a look on the Gato disambig page but nothing stood out. Lisiate 00:57, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ignore the above the Gato class article says its a species of shark. Lisiate 01:00, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How dumb was I?

I added submerged maximum range from http://www.maritime.org/tour/tmanvr.htm. It accords closely with the figures I've seen in Blair, Beach, Holmes, & Roscoe. As for being stupid, I deleted "at 2 knots (3.7kph)" from "Submerged Endurance"; 48 hours was the maximum dived endurance, after which air would be poisonous. I seriously doubt a steady 2kt was possible. Trekphiler 15:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Third patrol

I have serious doubts that her third patrol lasted almost 100 days. WeeWillieWiki (talk) 03:00, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation of 'Gato'

I'd imagined that 'gato' was pronounced as the Spanish word for 'cat'; but, I watched a documentary about the submarine and heard it said 'GAY-tow'. Is this the correct way to pronounce the word in this context? Perhaps, in any case, an explanation is in order? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:9:1D00:327:7527:AB2B:19B6:E5BD (talk) 03:31, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... you'd think so, but according to the article, it's named after a certain species of catshark, which means, the problem can be solved by finding out the American/English pronunciation of its name. Likely, the name of the shark was taken from Spanish, but it's quite plausible that it was dropped into the melting pot and pronounced differently. Unfortunately, a quick Google of 'catshark gato' reveals that this is not an organism to which much text has been dedicated! AngusCA (talk) 19:12, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The captain of the Gato submarine himself pronounces it 'GAY-tow' when he was contributing to a docu-drama. Listen to him with this YouTube at timestamp 23:56 - "USS Gato 'The Gato Story'" posted by Richard Damm. The interviewer says his name is Capt. Richard Holden. Very silly that I can't just put the link in that starts the video at the desired time. 68.225.172.14 (talk) 17:40, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]