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USS. Halibut. (SSGN-587) USS Halibut (SSGN-587), a unique nuclear-powered guided missile submarine-turned-special operations platform, later redesignated as an attack submarine SSN-587, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the halibut.
USS. Halibut. (SS-232) Halibut on the Piscataqua River at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, on 3 December 1941, just after her launching. She is dressed overall. USS Halibut (SS-232), a Gato -class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the halibut, a large species of flatfish.
[2]: 189 Other submarines were used for this role, including USS Parche (SSN-683), USS Richard B. Russell (SSN-687), and USS Seawolf (SSN-575). Seawolf was almost lost during one of these missions—she was stranded on the bottom after a storm and almost had to use her self-destruct charges to scuttle the ship with her crew. [4]
6-10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. 2-5 SSM-N-8 Regulus or. 2-4 SSM-N-9 Regulus II (Grayback / Halibut classes) The Regulus missile submarines were a group of submarines operated by the United States Navy (US Navy) capable of carrying the Regulus cruise missile. Between 1959 and 1964, a total of five boats were used to undertake the first ...
In the 67 years since the Navy launched the world's first nuclear-powered sub, USS Nautilus, its boats have only gotten more capable and more deadly.
39498566. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (ISBN 0-06-103004-X) by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence Drew, published in 1998 by PublicAffairs, is a non-fiction book about U.S. Navy submarine operations during the Cold War. Several operations are described in the book, such as the use of USS ...
Note: Several boats were converted into cruise missile submarines after construction, the USS Halibut was the only purpose built SSGN of the US Navy Class Name No. First boat laid down Last boat commissioned Notes Picture/Silhouette Halibut: 1 11 April 1957 4 January 1960 Unique submarine; Regulus missile submarine
The Soviet diesel-electric submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific Ocean 1,560 miles (2,510 km) NW of Hawaii, [7] on 8 March 1968. The USS Halibut identified the wreck site and the CIA crafted an elaborate and highly secret plan to recover the submarine for intelligence purposes.