USS Puffer (SSN-652)
USS Puffer (SSN-652) on her way to Guam in 1994. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Puffer (SSN-652) |
| Namesake | The pufferfish |
| Ordered | 26 March 1963 |
| Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Laid down | 8 February 1965 |
| Launched | 30 March 1968 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. John B. Colwell |
| Commissioned | 9 August 1969 |
| Decommissioned | 12 July 1996 |
| Stricken | 12 July 1996 |
| Motto | Pride in Perfection |
| Fate | Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program completed 28 March 1997 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sturgeon-class attack submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 292 ft (89 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draft | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Installed power | 15,000 shaft horsepower (11.2 megawatts) |
| Propulsion | One S5W nuclear reactor, two steam turbines, one screw |
| Speed | Over 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Test depth | 1,300 feet (400 meters) |
| Complement | 109 (14 officers, 95 enlisted men |
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USS Puffer (SSN-652), a Sturgeon-class nuclear attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the pufferfish, a saltwater fish with toxic spines that can inflate its body with water or air and is one of the most poisonous vertebrates in the world.