USS Bluefish (SSN-675)
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| Career |  |
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| Name: | USS Bluefish (SSN-675) |
| Ordered: | 15 July 1966 |
| Builder: | General Dynamics Electric Boat |
| Laid down: | 13 March 1968 |
| Launched: | 10 January 1970 |
| Commissioned: | 8 January 1971 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 May 1996 |
| Struck: | 31 May 1996 |
| Motto: | Blue Thunder from Down Under! |
| Fate: | Submarine recycling program |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Sturgeon-class submarine |
| Displacement: | 3,984 long tons (4,048 t) light 4,278 long tons (4,347 t) full 294 long tons (299 t) dead |
| Length: | 289 ft (88 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draft: | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × S5W nuclear reactor |
| Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) |
| Complement: | 14 officers, 95 men |
| Armament: | 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes amidships aft of bow • Mark 48 torpedoes • UUM-44A SUBROC missiles • UGM-84A/C Harpoon missiles • Mark 57 deep-water mines • Mark 60 CAPTOR mines |
USS Bluefish (SSN-675), a Sturgeon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bluefish. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 15 July 1966 and her keel was laid down on 13 March 1968. She was launched on 10 January 1970 sponsored by Mrs. David Packard, and commissioned on 8 January 1971, with Commander Richard A. Peterson in command.
Bluefish was decommissioned with Commander Richard C. West in command and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 31 May 1996. Ex-Bluefish entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, and on 1 November 2003 ceased to exist.
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This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
