USS Queenfish (SSN-651)
USS Queenfish (SSN-651) at the North Pole on 6 August 1970. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Queenfish |
| Namesake | The queenfish |
| Ordered | 26 March 1963 |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia |
| Laid down | 11 May 1964 |
| Launched | 25 February 1966 |
| Sponsored by | Julia Butler Hansen (1907–1988) |
| Commissioned | 6 December 1966 |
| Decommissioned | 8 November 1991 |
| Out of service | 21 September 1990 |
| Stricken | 14 April 1992 |
| Identification | SSN-651 |
| Motto |
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| Fate | Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program begun 1 May 1992, completed 7 April 1993 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sturgeon-class submarine |
| Displacement | 4,060 long tons (4,125 t) light |
| Length | 292 ft (89 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Draft | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Installed power | 15,000 shp (11,000 kW) |
| Propulsion | One S5W nuclear reactor, two steam turbines, one screw |
| Speed | Over 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Test depth | 1,300 ft (400 m) |
| Complement | 113 (14 officers, 99 enlisted men) |
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USS Queenfish (SSN-651), a Sturgeon-class attack 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.