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2. Ship-Submarine Recycling Program - Wikipedia

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   The Ship-Submarine Recycling Program (SRP) is the process that the United States Navy uses to dispose of decommissioned nuclear vessels. SRP takes place only at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS) in Bremerton, Washington , but the preparations can begin elsewhere.

3. Ship disposal - Wikipedia

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   Ship breaking is the most common and most environmentally accepted method of ship disposal. According to various organisations, only facilities approved by the Basel Action Network's "Green Ship Recycling" program are environmentally sound options. Artificial reefing is the sinking of ships offshore to form reefs. Before sinking, the vessel ...

4. Ship breaking - Wikipedia

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   Removing steel plates from a ship using cranes [1] at Alang Ship Breaking Yard in India. Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships either as a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap.

5. USS Sturgeon (SSN-637) - Wikipedia

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   Hull symbol: SSN-637; Call sign: NKTS; Honors and awards: Meritorious Unit Commendation (1968) Meritorious Unit Commendation (1969) Navy Unit Commendation (1970) Fate: Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program, 11 December 1995: General characteristics [1] Class and type: Sturgeon-class attack submarine: Displacement: 3,640 long tons ...

6. Explosive ordnance disposal (United States Navy) - Wikipedia

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   Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams trace their history back to the first group of volunteers selected to work with the famed British UXO teams, following the initial German Blitzkrieg attacks in early 1940. In June 1941, these veterans returned to form the first class in what was originally named the Mine Recovery School.

7. USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) - Wikipedia

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   USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) was a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy commissioned on 15 August 1998. Like the previous five Wasp-class ships, Bonhomme Richard was designed to embark, deploy, and land elements of a Marine Corps landing force in amphibious assault operations by helicopter, landing craft, and amphibious vehicle, and, if needed, to act as a light ...

8. Permit-class submarine - Wikipedia

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   Recycled via the nuclear Ship and Submarine Recycling Program 14 March 1996. Pollack: SSN-603 New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey: 14 March 1960 17 March 1962 26 May 1964 1 March 1989 24.8 Recycled via the nuclear Ship and Submarine Recycling Program 17 February 1995. Haddo: SSN-604 9 September 1960 18 August 1962 16 December 1964 12 June ...

9. USS Gurnard (SSN-662) - Wikipedia

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   Gurnard was decommissioned on 28 April 1995 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register the same day. Her scrapping via the Nuclear-Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, was completed on 15 October 1997.