USS Grayback (SSG-574)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Grayback.
USS Grayback (SS/SSG/APSS/LPSS-574), the lead ship of her class of submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grayback.
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Grayback (LPSS-574), underway, c. 1968 | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Grayback |
Ordered | 10 March 1951 |
Builder | Mare Island Naval Shipyard |
Laid down | 1 July 1954 |
Launched | 2 July 1957 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. John A. Moore |
Commissioned | 7 March 1958, as SSG-574 |
Decommissioned | 25 May 1964 |
Recommissioned | 9 May 1969, as LPSS-574 |
Decommissioned | 15 January 1984 |
Stricken | 16 January 1984 |
Homeport | Pearl Harbor |
Motto | De Profundis Futurus |
Fate | Sunk as a target near Subic Bay, 13 April 1986 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Grayback-class submarine |
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Length | 273 ft (83 m) later extended to 317 ft 7 in (96.80 m) |
Beam | 27 ft 2 in (8.28 m) |
Draft | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
Propulsion | 3 Fairbanks-Morse Diesel engines, 2 Elliott electric motors |
Speed | |
Complement | 84 officers and men |
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