USS Blueback (SS-581)
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| Career |  |
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| Awarded: | 29 June 1956 |
| Laid down: | 15 April 1957 |
| Launched: | 16 May 1959 |
| Commissioned: | 15 October 1959 |
| Fate: | Donated to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry |
| Stricken: | 30 October 1990 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1744 tons light, 2146 tons full, 402 tons dead |
| Length: | 66.7 meters (219 feet) overall, 66.4 meters (218 feet) waterline |
| Beam: | 8.8 meters (29 feet) |
| Draft: | 8.5 meters (28 feet) |
| Depth: | 712 feet operating, 1050 feet collapse |
| Speed: | 15 knots surfaced, 21 knots submerged |
| Endurance: | 30 minutes at full speed, 102 hours at 3 knots |
| Complement: | 8 officers, 69 men |
| Armament: | six 21-inch bow torpedo tubes, 18 torpedoes |
The second USS Blueback (SS-581) was a Barbel-class submarine in the United States Navy. She was named for a type of salmon.
Blueback was laid down by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation of Pascagoula, Mississippi on 15 April 1957. She was launched on 16 May 1959 sponsored by Mrs. Kenmore McManes, wife of Rear Admiral McManes, and commissioned on 15 October 1959, the last non-nuclear submarine to join the United States Navy.
- 31 years of operational history goes here.
Blueback can be seen in the movie The Hunt for Red October, playing the Russian submarine at the end.
Blueback was decommissioned on 1 October 1990 and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, Washington. She was struck from the Naval Register on 30 October 1990. In February 1994 the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry towed her to Portland, Oregon, where she became part of the museum.
OMSI currently offers guided tours of the submarine several times a day.
See USS Blueback for other ships of the same name.
References
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
External links
- OMSI Web Page (http://www.omsi.edu/visit/submarine/)
- Blueback (SS-581) (http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/SS581.htm) Entry in the US Navy's Naval Vessel Register
| Barbel-class submarine |
| List of submarines of the United States Navy List of submarine classes of the United States Navy |