USS Jack (SSN-605)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | 13 March 1959 |
| Laid down: | 16 September 1960 |
| Launched: | 24 April 1963 |
| Commissioned: | 31 March 1967 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 July 1990 |
| Fate: | submarine recycling |
| Stricken: | 11 July 1990 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3968 tons surfaced |
| Length: | 297 ft 4 in (91 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 7 in (9.6 m) |
| Draft: | 25 ft 4 in (7.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | S5W reactor |
| Speed: | 20+ knots (37 km/h) |
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| Complement: | 95 officers and men |
| Armament: | 4 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Jack (SSN-605), a Permit-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the jack, any young pike, green pike or pickerel, or large California rockfish. The contract to build her was awarded to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire on 13 March 1959 and her keel was laid down on 16 September 1960. She was launched on 24 April 1963 sponsored by Mrs. Groves, the wife of Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves, head of the Manhattan Project and commissioned on 31 March 1967, with Commander Louis T. Urbanczyk, Jr., in command.
Jack was a variation on the Permit class, twenty feet longer than her sisters and using an experimental direct-drive plant with counter-rotating propellers on a single shaft.
- 23 years of history go here.
Jack was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 11 July 1990. Ex-Jack entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, and on 30 June 1992 ceased to exist.
See USS Jack for other ships of the same name.
References
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.