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Shark (SSN-591)
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 | 179k | Submarine Silhouettes of 1960: Nautilus (SSN-571), Seawolf (SSN-575), Skate (SSN-578), Skipjack (SS-585), Triton (SSRN-586), Halibut (SSGN-587), Thresher (SSN-593), Tullibee (SSN-597), George Washington (SSBN-598), & Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) classes. | USN photo submitted by Ron Titus, courtesy of Ingersoll-Rand. Corp. | |
 | 187k | Nuclear Submarine Profiles 1960: Nautilus (SSN-571), Seawolf (SSN-575), Triton (SSRN-586), Skate (SSN-578) & Skipjack (SS-585) classes, Halibut (SSGN-587) & Tullibee (SSN-597) classes, George Washington (SSBN-598) & Thresher (SSN-593) classes. | USN photo courtesy of Ron Titus courtesy of Ingersoll-Rand. Corp. Photo i.d. courtesy of David Johnston | |
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60k | Watercolor and gouache on paper painting by the artist Viktor Stepansky entitled "Diving Skipjack Class". The Skipjack Class (SSN-585 / 88-92) - clearing showing the tear-drop shape adopted by many of the submarine's successors. The Scorpion (SSN-589) is pictured here underway. |
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774k | The launching of the Shark (SS-174) from the South Yard of Electric Boat Company. Five page PDF file showing the history of USN vessels named Shark. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 783k | Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601) awaits launching on Shipway 5 on a rainy 18 December 1959. Shark (SSN-591) is on the left. | Newport News Shipbuilding photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 636k | Overall view during the launching ceremony. | Newport News Shipbuilding photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
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316k | Launching program cover for the Shark (SSN-591), 16 March 1960. | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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316k | Pages 2 & 3 of the Launching program for the Shark (SSN-591), 16 March 1960. | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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338k | Sponsor's podium for the launching of the Shark (SSN-591). | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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402k | Wet spectators old and young who turned out to see the launching of the Shark (SSN-591). | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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323k | The many eyes of the Commander in Chief's Band of the Atlantic Fleet strikes up a beat during the Shark's (SSN-591) launching. | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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200k | The Shark (SSN-591) shortly before her launching, 16 March 1960. The Polaris submarine Sam Houston (SSBN-609) is under construction on the right. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
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132k | The Shark (SSN-591) shortly before her launching, 16 March 1960. The Polaris submarine Sam Houston (SSBN-609) is completely enclosed in the background. | Photo from Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. magazine March 1961, Volume XX, # II. Courtesy of John Shane & Robert Hall. |
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206k | Shark (SSN-591) on Shipway 5 a few days before her launching on 16 March 1960. The Sam Houston (SSBN-609) is under the canvas cover to Shark's right. | Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
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336k | Mrs. Louis Shane, sponsor of the Shark (SSN-591) and wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. gives the boat her first taste of champagne at her launching, 16 March 1960. | Photo from Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. magazine, 1961, pg 11. Courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. |
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341k | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co President W.E. Blewett Jr. speaks at the podium during Shark's (SSN-591) launching ceremony. | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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278k | Chaplin Bishop speaks at the podium during Shark's (SSN-591) launching ceremony. | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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460k | The Shark (SSN-591) takes to water on 16 March 1960. | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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295k | The once landed Shark (SSN-591) is waterbourne. | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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327k | The Shark (SSN-591) gets some help help from the tug Huntington following her launching on 16 March 1960. | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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659k | Plank-owners of the Shark (SSN-591) try to keep warm on a cold day during her launching on 16 March 1960. | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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267k | Front cover of the Commissioning program for the Shark (SSN-591), 9 February 1961. | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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267k | Pages 2 & 3 of the Commissioning program for the Shark (SSN-591), 9 February 1961. | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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201k | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co President W.E. Blewett Jr. speaks on board the Shark (SSN-591) at Dry Dock #2 as he delivered the Yard's first Nuclear boat during her commissioning ceremony on 9 February 1961. Among those present is Mrs. Louis Shane, who sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr., K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. |
Photo from Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. magazine March 1961, Volume XX, # II. Courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. |
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438k | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co President W.E. Blewett Jr. speaks on board the Shark (SSN-591) at Dry Dock #2 as he delivered the Yard's first Nuclear boat during her commissioning ceremony on 9 February 1961. Among those present is Mrs. Louis Shane, who sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr., K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. |
Photo from Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. magazine March 1961, Volume XX, # II. Courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. |
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2.68k | AP wirephoto of Shark's (SSN-591) commissioning at Newport News on 9 February 1961. | USN photo from the files of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
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263k | The following text is the Shark's (SSN-591) commissioning ceremony speech from Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Russell on 9 February 1961. Mr. Blewett, Admiral Burch, LDCR Fagan (pictured) her commander distinguished guests, commissioned officers and enlisted men of Shark (SSN-591). It is always an honor for a sailor to participate in the commissioning of a new fighting ship, and it is particularly so for me in this case, because of the deep regard and close friendship I held for the commanding officer of a previous Shark. I speak of Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr., who commanded Shark Number 4, the SS-174, in the early rugged days of World War II in the fighting around the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies. World War II found that Shark in the southwest Pacific and one of her early tasks was to move Admiral Hart, Commander of the Asiatic Fleet, from Manila to Suerabaja. She was then assigned the task of attacking targets of opportunity in the Molucca Sea. During one of these war patrols, she was depth charged a number of times and apparently had a hot time in the Molucca Sea and around Celebes Island until the 7th of February 1942 when the last communication was received from her. From all evidence available after the war, Shark was lost as a result of a depth charge attack on 11 February off Manedo, a town in the Northern Celebes. All of us in the Navy, I am sure, retain a very vivid memory of the circumstances under which we first joined the service. I joined the Navy in company with Louis Shane. Louis, son of Captain Shane, Inspector of Naval Machinery of the shipyard in our hometown of Tacoma, Washington; Ted Rimer, the son of a Coast Guard officer; and I, were the three appointments to the Naval Academy made by our local congressman in the year 1922. As classmates at the Naval Academy and close friends in Service thereafter, I greatly admired Louis Shane. We have the honor of having his wife Marjorie here today. She was the gracious lady who sponsored this ship when launched last March. Today as we commission Shark Number 6, we return to the active list a well-remembered and cherished name. In creating a new Shark we honor those gallant ships of the past which have borne that name, and we especially pay tribute to the heroic crews who manned them. This morning, as I toured Shark with Mrs. Shane, I was reminded of the many outstanding contributions the Newport News Shipbuilding Company has made in building our fleet. The Newport News Shipyard has been in the forefront of supplying ships for the Navy since the Yard's first job of naval construction, the gunboat, Nashville (PG-7), built in 1897. Just ten years after that beginning when President Teddy Roosevelt sent the great "White Fleet" on its famous around-the-world cruise, no less than seven of the sixteen battleships making that fourteen months voyage bore the Newport News trademark. It is worthy of note that during World War I this Yard furnished a greater amount of shipping tonnage than all other yards in the United States combined. During World War II, over half of the fast aircraft carriers which proved such a crucial factor in forcing a decision in the Pacific were built here. Such gallant ships as the Nashville (CL-43), Pennsylvania (BB-38), Boise (CL-47), two Rangers (CV-4)& (CVA-61), two Yorktowns (CV-5 & 10), Enterprise (CV-6), Essex (CV-9), Franklin(CV-13), and many others have carried the trademark of this great shipbuilding establishment. My first assignment in the Fleet in 1926 was the battleship West Virginia (BB-48) which was built here. In 1936, I was engaged in the fitting out of the aircraft carrier Yorktown here. There is a motto carved in stone in the Yard which I shall always remember. It is the motto given to the Shipyard by its founder, Mr. Huntington - it reads - "we will build good ships, at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but we will build good ships." We are here to place in commission this latest product of the engineering skill, dynamic imagination and productive know-how of the shipbuilders in Newport News. The Shark is the second nuclear powered submarine of the Skipjack Class powered by a water cooled nuclear reactor built by Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It incorporates the latest advances in power and hull design in submarine construction. The combination of nuclear propulsion and streamlined hull gives this class the greatest underwater performance of any ship in the fleet today. Her phenomenal speed and great maneuverability make her especially suited for carrying out her mission of attack. It is particularly appropriate that an attack submarine of such great capabilities be named Shark, for the Shark is a fighter and probably the most feared of fish. It is aggressive and courageous. It is a ferocious and bellicose fighting fish with a tenacious spirit, - a fitting name, indeed, for a United States man-of-war. Nuclear power in a submarine has been one of the greatest advances of our time. Many records have been established since Nautilus (SSN-571) sent her famous message "Underway on nuclear power," 17 January 1955. Seawolf (SSN-575) proved the submerged endurance capability of nuclear submarines and their crews with her record- breaking 60-day continually submerged patrol in 1958. Nautilus pioneered the vast new field of "exploration of inner space" - the probing of the heretofore inaccessible depths of the oceans - with her transit from the Pacific Ocean under the Arctic ice to the North Pole on 5 August 1958 and on to the Atlantic Ocean. She was followed by only a few days by Skate (SSN-578) who reached the North Pole from the Atlantic on 12 August. Just over a year later, Skate on a similar transit surfaced at the Pole on the 17th of March 1959 and there paid a final tribute to the pioneer of Arctic submarining, Sir Hubert Wilkins, by casting the ashes of that famous old explorer on the polar ice. Sargo (SSN-583) was at the North Pole exactly one year ago today, and more recently Seadragon (SSN-584) in August 1960, was the first submarine to transit from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the Arctic Ocean. And of course a feat without equal, and one in which all Navy men feel great pride, was Triton's (SSN-556) 84 days around the world submerged February through May last year in commemoration of the first world circumnavigator, Magellan. So it is that you have here a ship of most interesting and extensive capabilities, - a ship of war of a type in which we, the United States, excel. May your exploits in Shark match and excel those of the nuclear powered submarines who have pioneered the way. As you become an active unit of the U. S. Navy, you have an important place awaiting in the fleet which keeps the watch of freedom around the world. To close my remarks I shall deviate from the usual wishes to the ship's company for smooth sailing. These modern submarines always enjoy smooth sailing while cruising in the depths of the sea. However, I do wish each of you every success in carrying out your assigned missions. Great challenges and great opportunities await you. I envy you your opportunity to create new vista in tactics with the economy of "fewest fissions per mission." Good luck and Godspeed. |
Photo from Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. magazine March 1961, Volume XX, # II. Courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. Text courtesy of John Shane. |
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131k | Shark's (SSN-591) commissioning crew wearing whites stand on the boat's sail in this 1961 photo. | USN photo courtesy of David Buell. | |
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867k | Shark's (SSN-591) sailors salute standard at submarine's stern, 5 February 1961. | USN photo # NPC 1053260, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
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306k | Flag flutters forward of foam as Shark (SSN-591) slides the seas, 1961. | USN photo # NPC 1106543, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
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345k | Port quarter view of the Shark (SSN-591) cutting through the water, most likely soon after her commissioning, circa early 1961. | USN photo courtesy of John Shane, whose grandmother, Mrs. Louis Shane sponsored the boat and was the wife of the late Lieutenant Commander Louis Shane, Jr. who was K.I.A. while commanding the Shark (SSN-591), approximately 11 February 1942. | |
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118k | Bow on view of the Shark (SSN-591) cutting through the water most likely soon after her commissioning, circa early 1961. | USN photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. | |
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102k | Shark (SSN-591) approaching the Newport News (CA-148) in Athens, Greece during the 1961 Med. cruise. | Courtesy of George Klos. | |
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41k | Shark (SSN-591) tied up alongside the Newport News (CA-148) in Athens, Greece during the 1961 Med. cruise. | Courtesy of George Klos. | |
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108k | Orion (AS-18), first tender equipped for nuclear submarines. The Shark (SSN-591), alongside, is her first customer, 1961. | Courtesy of Barry R. Trosper, USS Shark 1961-1963. | |
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1.08k | On 29 January 1962, the submarine steamed to Bermuda, B.W.I., for 2 weeks of type training. She was next deployed to the North Atlantic from 15 March to 23 May. During this period, Shark (SSN-591) paid a one-week visit to Portsmouth, England. Note her name on the rails of her sail. |
Text courtesy of DANFS. Photo i.d. courtesy of David W. Galloway. Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
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210k | Return from 1962 Petticoat Cruise. | Courtesy of Barry R. Trosper, USS Shark 1961-1963. | |
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543k | Aboard the Shark (SSN-591), C.O. Zebulon D. Alford gives orders to the crew at New London, CT., in 1963. | Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images, courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
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462k | Shark (SSN-591) dockside going to Europe, 1963. | Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
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300k | Shark (SSN-591) movie! March 1963 off France. | Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
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508k | Shark (SSN-591) C.O. Zebulon D. Alford & officers, 1963 off France. | Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
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289k | A bord du sous-marin atomique Shark (SSN-591) de la porte de la salle des sonars, deux navigateurs, traant la route sous le regard du commandant se tenant une barre verticale. | Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
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388k | Torpedo room of the Shark (SSN-591). | Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
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504k | Mess aboard the Shark (SSN-591). | Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
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509k | Torpedo room of the Shark (SSN-591). | Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
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500k | C.O. Zebulon D. Alford & Torpedo room of the Shark (SSN-591). | Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
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421k | Navigation room. | Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
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406k | C.O. Zebulon D. Alford inspects the crew. | Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
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642k | C.O. Zebulon D. Alford inspects the crew stateside at New London, 1963. | Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images courtesy of gettyimages.com. | |
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684k | Shark (SSN-591) entering Grand Harbor, Valletta, Malta in 1964. | Photograph courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
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71k | Commemorative post mark honoring Shark (SSN-591) goodwill visit to Portsmouth England, March 1962. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
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105k | Shark (SSN-591), in port at San Juan, PR., 1965. Triton (SSN-586) is on the Shark's right. | Photographed and contributed courtesy of John Hummel, USN (Retired). | |
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127k | Shark (SSN-591), in port at San Juan, PR., 1965.Triton (SSN-586) on left, you just see her topside. Redfin, (SSR-272) and Requin (SS-481) are outboard of her. | Photographed and contributed courtesy of John Hummel, USN (Retired). | |
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73k | Biography of Commander Robert Kelsey, CO of the Shark (SSN-591) during the mid 1960's. | USN photo from 1965 Welcome Aboard pamphlet, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
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345k | Cut out of the Shark (SSN-591) from 1965 Welcome Aboard pamphlet. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 428k | Tigrone (SS-419) moored next to tender between Shark (SSN-591) and an ASR, January / February 1966 during the annual Springboard operation. | Photo courtesy of Gerry Young. | |
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823k | On 11 June 1967, Shark (SSN-591) prepared for her first refueling period at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and did not put to sea again until March 1968. The remainder of 1968 and 1969 was spent performing local or special operations. She appears here on 16 July 1968. | Text courtesy of DANFS. USN photo # K-55089, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. |
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883k | Shark (SSN-591) appears here on 24 October 1968. | USN photo # K-60299, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
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532k | Surrounded by Nahasho (YTM-535) & Menominee (YTB-790), the Shark (SSN-591) is nudged to dock on 16 July 1969. | USN photo # K-55088, courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
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1.06k | Shark (SSN-591) at DD # 1, Pearl Harbor, August 1971. | Photograph by Martin Longseth USCS, courtesy of Ron Reeves (of blessed memory). | |
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1.97k | Shark (SSN-591) arriving at Mare Island Naval SHipyard on 18 September 1981 for overhaul. Shark is guided to her berh at Mare Island by Dekaury (YTM 178) and a YTL class tug. | USN photo from the files of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
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297k | A photo of the Shark (SSN-591) issued by the ship and project team during her overhaul at Mare Island from 1 October 1981 to 2 June 1983. | USN Photo # 180674, courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
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179k | A starboard bow view of the submarine tender L. Y. Spear (AS-36) moored at the destroyer and submarine piers at Norfolk Naval Base on 7 September 1983. The Skipjack class nuclear-powered attack submarine Shark (SSN-591) is moored alongside. | Photo i.d. courtesy of John Hummel, USN (Retired). Official USN photo # DN-ST-85-11655, by Don S. Montgomery, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. |
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645k | A port bow view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Shark (SSN-591) underway, 1 September 1985. | Official USN photo # DN-SC-86-03560 from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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12.1k | Shark (SSN-591) Deactivation Ceremony pamphlet, 11 October, 1989. | PDF courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
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563k | Crew members stand on the sail and diving planes of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Shark (SSN-591) as locomotives pull it through the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal on 11 November 1989. The submarine is en route to the Pacific Ocean. | Official USN photo # DF-ST-93-04964 by MSGT. Herbert Cintron Jr., from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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430k | The cargo ship Solar Wind stands above the nuclear-powered attack submarine Shark (SSN-591) as locomotives pull it through the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal on 11 November 1989. The submarine is en route to the Pacific Ocean. | Official USN photo # DF-ST-93-04965 by MSGT. Herbert Cintron Jr., from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. & submited by Bill Gonyo. | |
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976k | Crew members stand on the sail and diving planes of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Shark (SSN-591) as locomotives pull it through the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal on 11 November 1989. The submarine is en route to the Pacific Ocean. | Official USN photo # DF-ST-93-04967 by MSGT. Herbert Cintron Jr., from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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1.90k | Shark (SSN-591) 1990 change of command pamphlet. | PDF courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 291k | "Sign of the times." March 1994 photo of Nuclear submarines at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard waiting in line for scrapping. Top row left to right are Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Seawolf (SSN-575), Plunger (SSN-595), Shark (SSN-591), Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636), Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) alongside Sperry (AS-12), with Triton (SSRN-586) across the pier from the Sperry . Bottom row, from left to right Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Skipjack (SS-585), Snook (SSN-592), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), Lapon (SSN-661), Dace (SSN-607), Skate (SSN-578), Swordfish (SSN-579), Sargo (SSN-583), Seadragon (SSN-584). Across the pier are Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), and not in view, Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), George Washington (SSBN-598), Barb (SSN-596) & Sea Devil (SSN-664). There are so many submarines at PSNSY that the yard is running out of pier space. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
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185k | Moored submarines awaiting their final fate at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA sometime in 1996: From left to right: Shark (SSN-591), Plunger (SSN-595), Snook (SSN-592) & Patrick Henry (SSBN-599). |
Photograph courtesy of Ray Arntson via btrosper.com. | |
 | 83k | Trench 94, Hanford Site, Washington, 1994. Hull sections containing defueled reactor compartments of decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are put in disposal trenches. Once full, the trench will be filled with dirt and buried. The compartments are expected to retain their integrity for more than 600 years. | USN photo submitted by Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 569k | Sealed reactor compartments are shipped by barge out of Puget Sound Naval Base down the coast and along the Columbia River to the port of Benton. There the radioactively-contaminated hull sections are transferred to special multiwheeled high-load trailers for transport to the Hanford Reservation in Washington State. Pictured below is the burial ground for spent fuel of the following 77 nuclear reactor submarines as of March 2003: Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), Snook (SSN-592), George Washington (SSBN-598), Scamp (SSN-588), Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601), Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600), Dace (SSN-607), John Adams (SSBN-620), Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602), Barb (SSN-596), Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Pollack (SSN-603), Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685), James Monroe (SSBN-622), Skipjack (SS-585), Nathan Hale (SSBN-623), Plunger (SSN-595), Shark (SSN-591), Lafayette (SSBN-616), Sam Houston (SSBN-609), Jack (SSN-605), Haddo (SSN-604), Tinosa (SSN-606), Guardfish (SSN-612), Permit (SSN-594), Queenfish (SSN-651), Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631), John Marshall (SSBN-611), George C. Marshall (SSBN-654), Flasher (SSN-613), Guitarro (SSN-665), Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617), George Washington Carver (SSBN-656), Tecumseh (SSBN-628), Halibut (SSGN-587), Will Rogers (SSBN-659), Henry L. Stimson (SSBN-655), Daniel Boone (SSBN-629), Greenling (SSN-614), John C. Calhoun (SSBN-630), Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633), Skate (SSN-578), Sargo (SSN-583), Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657), Sturgeon (SSN-637), Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640), Swordfish (SSN-579), Seadragon (SSN-584), Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634), Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641), Hammerhead (SSN-663), Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658), Tullibee (SSN-597), Lewis & Clark (SSBN-644), Pargo (SSN-650), Seahorse (SSN-669), Gurnard (SSN-662), Flying Fish (SSN-673), Gato (SSN-615), Puffer (SSN-652), Seawolf (SSN-575), Baton Rouge (SSN-689), Bergall (SSN-667), Whale (SSN-638), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), James Madison (SSBN-627), Finback (SSN-670), Spadefish (SSN-668), Sunfish (SSN-649), George Bancroft (SSBN-643), Grayling (SSN-646), Pintado (SSN-672), Tunny (SSN-682), Archerfish (SSN-678), & Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624). As time passes & more boats are retired from service and their reactors are brought here, so the numbers rise. In this photo dated November 2009, 98 nuclear submarines and six nuclear cruisers have been recycled. For an up to date view, click here | USN photo submitted by Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). Insert link courtesy of wikimedia.org |
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| Commanding Officers | |||
| 01 | LCDR. Fagan Jr., John Fischer, USN (USNA 1946) :RADM | 09.02.1961 - 16.06.1962 First Date in Commission | |
| 02 | CDR. Alford, Zeb Dickey, USN (USNA 1948-A) | 16.06.1962 - 30.10.1963 | |
| 03 | CDR. Donlon, John Michael, USN (USNA 1949) | 30.10.1963 - 24.11.1965 | |
| 04 | CDR. Kelsey, Robert Lee, USN | 24.11.1965 - 06.04.1968 | |
| 05 | CDR. Self, David Lee, CDR USN | 06.04.1968 - 07.06.1972 | |
| 06 | CDR. Van Metre, James Merle, USN (USNA 1956) | 07.06.1972 - 20.07.1977 | |
| 07 | CDR. Marshall, James Allen, USN (USNA 1962) | 20.07.1977 - 03.10.1979 | |
| 08 | CDR. Anderson, Harold Murray, USN (USNA 1964) | 03.10.1979 - 31.10.1983 | |
| 09 | CDR. Jackson, George William, USN | 31.10.1983 - 22.08.1986 | |
| 10 | CDR. Carr, Russell Morgan, USN (USNA 1971) | 22.08.1986 - 09.02.1990 | |
| 11 | CDR. Large III, William Robert, USN (USNA 1971) | 09.02.1990 - 10.09.1990 Last Date in Commission | |
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