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Uss Cavalla (Ssn-684) | style="text-align: center" colspan="2"| | | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| USN Jack | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Career | | rdered: | 24 July 1968 | | aid down: | 4 June 1970 | | aunched: | 19 February 1972 | | ommissioned: | 9 February 1973 | | ecommissioned: | 30 March 1998 | | ate: | submarine recycling | | tricken: | 30 March 1998 | | olspan=2 align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 4193 tons light, 4498 tons full, 305 tons dead | | ength: | 90.8 meters (298 feet) | | eam: | 9.7 meters (32 feet) | | raft: | 8.8 meters (29 feet) | | ropulsion: | S5W reactor | | omplement: | 12 officers, 98 men | | rmament: | | | otto: | USS Cavalla (SSN-684), a Sturgeon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the cavalla, a salt water fish of the pompano family inhabiting waters off the eastern coast of the Americas from Cape Cod to Rio de la Plata. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 24 July 1968 and her keel was laid down on 4 June 1970. She was launched on 19 February 1972 sponsored by Mrs. Melvin Price, and commissioned on 9 February 1973, with Commander Bruce DeMars in command. - 25 years of history go here
Cavalla was decommissioned on 30 March 1998 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 March 1998. Ex-Cavalla entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, and on 17 November 2000 ceased to exist. See USS Cavalla for other ships of the same name. References Cavalla
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