USS Verdin (ASR-17) – projected as a Chanticleer-class submarine rescue vessel – was to be built at Savannah, Georgia, by the Savannah Machine & Foundry Co.; but, because of Japan's collapse, the contract for her construction was cancelled on 5 August 1945.

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