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Uss Queenfish (Ssn-651) | style="text-align: center" colspan="2"| | | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| USN Jack | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Career | | rdered: | 26 March 1963 | | aid down: | 11 May 1964 | | aunched: | 25 February 1966 | | ommissioned: | 6 December 1966 | | ecommissioned: | 14 April 1992 | | ate: | submarine recycling | | tricken: | 14 April 1992 | | olspan=2 align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 4060 tons light, tons full | | ength: | 89 meters (292 feet) | | eam: | 9.4 meters (31 feet) | | raft: | 7.6 meters (25 feet) | | ropulsion: | S5W reactor | | omplement: | officers, 99 men | | rmament: | | | otto: | USS Queenfish (SSN-651), a Sturgeon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the queenfish, a small, food fish found off the Pacific coast of North America. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 26 March 1963 and her keel was laid down on 11 May 1964. She was launched on 25 February 1966 sponsored by Hon. Julia B. Hansen, and commissioned on 6 December 1966, with Commander Jackson B. Richard in command. - 24 years of history go here.
Queenfish was decommissioned on 8 November 1991 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 14 April 1992. Ex-Queenfish entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, on 1 May 1992 and on 7 April 1993 ceased to exist. See USS Queenfish for other ships of the same name. References Queenfish 651
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