USS Hammerhead (SSN-663)
USS Hammerhead (SSN-663) | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Hammerhead (SSN-663) |
| Namesake | The hammerhead shark |
| Ordered | 28 May 1964 |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia |
| Laid down | 29 November 1965 |
| Launched | 14 April 1967 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. O. Clark Fisher |
| Commissioned | 28 June 1968 |
| Decommissioned | 5 April 1995 |
| Stricken | 5 April 1995 |
| Honors & awards | Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for U.S. Atlantic Fleet 1981 |
| Fate | Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program completed 22 November 1995 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sturgeon-class attack submarine |
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| Length | 292 ft 3 in (89.08 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft 8 in (8.74 m) |
| Installed power | 15,000 shaft horsepower (11 megawatts) |
| Propulsion | One S5W nuclear reactor, two steam turbines, one screw |
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| Test depth | 1,300 ft (396 m) |
| Complement | 109 (14 officers, 95 enlisted men |
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USS Hammerhead (SSN-663), a Sturgeon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the hammerhead shark, a voracious fish found in warm seas, with a curious hammerlike head.