Editing USS Pampanito (section)

== In film ==

''Pampanito'' played the fictional USS ''Stingray'' (SS-161) in the 1996 [[comedy film]] ''[[Down Periscope]]''. [[Kelsey Grammer]] stars as the ''Stingray''{{'}}s [[commanding officer]], Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge, and the film is set on the [[United States East Coast]] in the harbors at [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[South Carolina]], and [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]], [[Virginia]]. The action scenes use a combination of a [[special effects]] shooting miniature for the [[Digital compositing|composited]] underwater scenes, older ''Pampanito'' color [[stock footage]] of her under power on the surface, then submerging, and newly shot footage of ''Pampanito'' moving under [[Towing|tow]] in [[San Francisco Bay]] while venturing past the [[Golden Gate Bridge]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116130/trivia |title=Trivia for Down Periscope (1996) |website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=2008-03-12}}</ref> It had been fifty years since she last passed under the bridge.<ref name="welcome" />