Sea Wolf

The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. See Jack London: The Sea-Wolf

Table of contents

1 Motion Picture 2 Submarines 3 Zoology and Cryptozoology

Motion Picture

Jack London's novel has been adapted for motion pictures many times:

• The Sea-Wolf (1913), starring Hobart Bosworth, with Jack London himself appearing as an unnamed sailor;
• The Sea Wolf (1920), starring Noah Beery;
• The Sea Wolf (1926), starring Ralph Ince;
• The Sea Wolf (1930), starring Milton Sills;
• The Sea Wolf (1941). starring Edward G. Robinson and Ida Lupino;
• The Legend of the Sea Wolf (1975) (Il Lupo dei Mari), starring Chuck Connors
• The Sea Wolf (1997), starring Stacy Keach

Submarines

The name Seawolf has been used for four U. S. Navy submarines:

• The "USS H-1 Seawolf," SS 28, was commissioned in 1913 and ran aground and was lost at sea in 1920.
• The "USS Seawolf", SS 197, was commissioned in 1939 and lost at sea in 1944.
• The USS Seawolf, SSN-575, commissioned in 1957, was the second Nuclear Submarine in the world, Like the Nautilus, SSN-571, it was fully armed but primarily experimental.
• The USS Seawolf, SSN-21, is a United States Navy nuclear attack submarine, commissioned in 1997. Its motto is Cave Lupum ("beware of the wolf").

The "Seawolf (SSN-21) Class also includes the USS Connecticut (SSN-22) and the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23).

See also United States Naval reactor.

Zoology and Cryptozoology

There is no animal known to science named the "sea wolf."

Some websites on the occult mention a legendary animal of the Pacific Northwest coast called the sea-wolf, haietlik, sisiutl, or wasgo.