USS Queenfish (SSN-651)
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.jpg) Queenfish underway near Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. |
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| Career |  |
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| Name: | USS Queenfish (SSN-651) |
| Ordered: | 26 March 1963 |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia |
| Laid down: | 11 May 1964 |
| Launched: | 25 February 1966 |
| Commissioned: | 6 December 1966 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 April 1992 |
| Struck: | 14 April 1992 |
| Motto: | La Reine de la Mer ("Queen of the Sea") |
| Fate: | Submarine recycling program |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Sturgeon-class submarine |
| Displacement: | 4,060 long tons (4,125 t) light |
| Length: | 292 ft (89 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Draft: | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × S5W nuclear reactor |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)+ |
| Complement: | 14 officers, 99 men |
| Armament: | 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes • UUM-44A SUBROC missiles |
USS Queenfish (SSN-651), a Sturgeon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Queenfish, a small food fish found off the Pacific coast of North America. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 26 March 1963 and her keel was laid down on 11 May 1964. She was launched on 25 February 1966, sponsored by Hon. Julia B. Hansen, and commissioned on 6 December 1966, with Commander Jackson B. Richard in command.
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[edit] Service history
In 1970, the Queenfish operated below the polar ice pack, mapping the ocean surface for potential military purposes in the event of a shooting war between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Queenfish was decommissioned on 8 November 1991 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 14 April 1992. Ex-Queenfish entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, on 1 May 1992 and on 7 April 1993 ceased to exist.
[edit] References
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
[edit] External links
- New York Times story about the 1970 Arctic ocean surface mapping mission. by William J. Broad 18 March 2008
[edit] See also
- "Unknown Waters" by Capt. Alfred S. McLaren
