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 | 50k | Platform plan of Thresher (SSN-593) class submarines. | PDF courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 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 | |
 | 175k | The Guardfish's (SSN-612) sponsor, Mrs. Kenneth E. Belieu, wife of Assistant Secretary of Navy, christens the boat on 15 May 1965. | Text courtesy of DANFS. Photo courtesy of New York Shipbuilding via Dale Hargrave. |
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 | 226k | The Guardfish (SSN-612) stands on the beginning of the launching ways on 15 May 1965. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 623k | Guardfish (SSN-612) launching ceremony at New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey on 15 May 1965. The Pogy (SSN-647) is under construction to her left and would be launched on 3 June 1967. | Photo courtesy of New York Shipbuilding via Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 81k | The Guardfish (SSN-612) stands on the beginning of the launching ways on 15 May 1965. | USN photo courtesy of Robert Hurst. | |
 | 335k | Guardfish (SSN-612) sliding down the launching ways at New York Shipbuilding Corp, Camden, NJ. 15 May 1965. | Photo courtesy of New York Shipbuilding via Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 226k | The Guardfish (SSN-612) is ready to be moved to the fitting out dock after her launching as a tug stands by. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 122k | Commemorative post mark of the launching of Guardfish (SSN-612) on 15 May 1965. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 30k | Starboard beam view of the Guardfish (SSN-612) underway, probably during her alpha sea-trials off the Atlantic coast, 1965-66. | Photo courtesy of New York Shipbuilding., yorkship.home.comcast.net. | |
 | 433k | Six page instruction in steps necessary in preparing for a visit by VADM Rickover to the Guardfish (SSN-612) in 1966. She was likely going on builders trials in August 1966. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 83k | The Guardfish (SSN-612) lies under a blanket of snow waiting commissioning at the New York Shipbuilding Corp. Camden N.J., 20 December 1966. | USN photo. | |
 | 591k | Capt. Gulmer A. Hines, USN. He serviced as the first commanding officer of the Guardfish (SSN-612) from 20 December 1966 - 13 January 1968. He is pictured as COMSUBPAC Representative at Mare Island in this photo. | Photo from the files of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 23k | Commemorative post card marking the commissioning of the Guardfish (SSN-612), 20 December 1966. | Courtesy of Richard Leonhardt. | |
 | 33k | Commemorative post mark of the Panama Canal Transit of Guardfish (SSN-612) on 8 September 1967. | USN photo courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 345k | The Guardfish (SSN-612) is grounded outside of the entrance to Pearl Harbor after ahe missed the entrance buoy by about 150 feet on 24 December 1967. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 368k | A small helping hand arrives. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 240k | A row of buoys show in the background as more help arrives. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 23k | Guardfish (SSN-612) in dry dock late 1967. The reason the Guardfish was in dry dock is she had missed the entrance buoy to Pearl Harbor and spent 3 days run up on a coral reef sucking all that coral sand up into her main condensers. That is the reason her skipper was relieved. | Courtesy of Stan Nove / USS Guardfish web page. Text i.d. courtesy of Ric Hedman. |
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 | 109k | A brief operational history of the Guardfish (SSN-612) from 1965 - 1982. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 505k | Cold War adventures, May 1972. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
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192k | Four Thresher Class boats exercise on 20 May 1968: Plunger (SSN-595), Barb (SSN-596), Guardfish (SSN-612) & Flasher (SSN-613). |
USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
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345k | Four Thresher Class boats exercise on 20 May 1968 in color: Plunger (SSN-595), Barb (SSN-596), Guardfish (SSN-612) & Flasher (SSN-613). |
USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 53k | Guardfish (SSN-612) and the Daniel Webster (SSBN-626), in the Panama Canal, 14 March 1970. We were heading back to Pearl after the shipyard in Miss. If I remember right this was the only time two nukes were in the canal at one time. It was some kind of a first. | Courtesy of Jeff Kelly / USS Guardfish web page. Partial text info courtesy of Skip Spahr, TM02 (SS.) |
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 | 271k | The Guardfish (SSN-612) off the coast of Hawaii, date unknown. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 546k | No numbered Guardfish (SSN-612) underway somewhere on planet Earth. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 21k | Commander Garland H. Kanady, Jr. graduated from Dartmouth College in 1960 and was assigned directly to Submarine School. He served for two and one half years in Catfish (SS-339) until he entered the Nuclear Power Program in October 1963. After nuclear power training he served for three years in Skate (SSN-578), for two years as Engineer Officer at the S1C Nuclear Power Training Unit in Windsor, Connecticut, and for two years as Navigator and Operations Officer in Aspro (SSN-648). Before taking command of Guardfish (SSN-612) in July 1975, he served as executive officer of Henry Clay (SSBN-625) (Gold). During his tour as commanding officer, Guardfish went through a refueling/SUBSAFE overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, completing her first dive to full test depth in 1977. She also completed a successful deployment to WESTPAC and conducted special operations with one of the first digital sonar systems to deploy in the Pacific. After leaving Guardfish in February 1979, Commander Kanady served in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Submarine Warfare and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense before retiring from the Navy in 1986. | USN photo submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
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538k | CDR Raymond E. Vaughan was the commanding officer of Guardfish (SSN-612) from 9 February 1979 to 7 May 1982. | Photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 675k | On 2 July 1982, Commander D. A. Oltraver, USN, assumed command. The ship won the ASW "E" and Communications "C" in both 1982 and 1983, and was awarded the Silver Anchor Award in the spring of 1984 for her outstanding retention program. Guardfish (SSN-612) entered Mare Island Naval Shipyard for regular overhaul in September 1983 and completed the overhaul in August 1985. She appears here wearing one of her many E's from the 80's. | Text via en.wikipedia.org USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 183k | Guardfish (SSN-612) is seen in dry dock 1 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 28 September 1983. She was in overhaul at the yard from 3 October 1983 until 20 August 1985. Note: The X's marked on her side are to check for a Radiation survey. Yard checked areas of the hull when it dry docked ships to make sure there was no radioactive contamination. | USN photo # 199009-9-83, courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 79k | Guardfish (SSN-612) is seen in dry dock 1 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 28 September 1983. | USN photo # 199009-10-83, courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 954k | Guardfish (SSN-612) off Point Loma in this undated photo. | USN photo courtesy of Jim Stats and submitted by Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 36k | The Guardfish (SSN-612) is shown arriving at Mare Island for overhaul in mid September 1983. She was in overhaul from 3 October 1983 to 20 August 1985. She received an upgraded BQQ-5 sonar and a MK 117 Fire Control system during the overhaul. The tug DeKaury (YTM-178) is assisting Guardfish to her berth. | Official USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 48k | An Oil on Masonite painting by the artist John Charles Roach, entitled "Ballast Point, San Diego", depicts sub base with subs and tenders at the pier in San Diego during mid 1986.
The tenders were possibly the
McKee (AS-42) for Subron 7: Dixon (AS-37) for Subron 3: Among the subs were the: Gudgeon (SS-567): Albacore (AGSS-569): Blueback (SS-581): Permit (SSN-594): Plunger (SSN-595): Pollack (SSN-603) Haddo (SSN-604): Guardfish (SSN-612): Haddock (SSN-621): Sturgeon (SSN-637): Gurnard (SSN-662) : Hawkbill (SSN-666): Pintado (SSN-672): Drum (SSN-677): William H. Bates (SSN-680): La Jolla (SSN-701): Portsmouth (SSN-707) & Salt Lake City (SSN-716). | Ballast Point, San Diego John Charles Roach 1986.5 Oil on Masonite, 1986, courtesy of the USNHC, # 88-163-CR. Text contributed by OMC J. Reid Pallady USNR-RET & QM2(SS)David Johnston (USN, retired) |
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 | 384k | A lieutenant mans the periscope in the control room aboard the nuclear-powered attack submarine Guardfish (SSN-612), 1 February 1987. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-90-07857, by PH1 Harry Gerwien, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 544k | A petty officer climbs up a ladder to the deck of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Guardfish (SSN-612), 1 February 1987. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-90-07856, by PH1 Harry Gerwien, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 872k | Promotional photo of Guardfish (SSN-612) off of Point Loma, San Diego, CA. | USN photo courtesy of Dan Demmons & Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 105k | Clipping from the 20 February 1992 edition of the "Salute", Puget Sound Naval Shipyard's newspaper showing crew members of the Guardfish (SSN-612) folding the flag for the last time during decommissioning ceremonies at the shipyard on 4 February 1992. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 64k | Port side view of the Guardfish (SSN-612) underway, date & location unknown. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 127k | Commemorative post mark of the decommissioning of Guardfish (SSN-612) on 04 February 1992 at Naval Submarine Base at Bremerton, WA. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 54k | CDR. Paul M. Higgins was the last Commanding Officer of the Guardfish (SSN-612) serving from 9 November 1990 to 2 February 1992. He served as the Commanding Officer of the Lafayette (SSBN-616) (Blue) crew from 1989 to 1990 prior to his assignment aboard the Guardfish. | Photo courtesy of the USS Guardfish website via Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 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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| 01 | CDR. Hines Jr., Gulmer Augustus (Bud), USN (USNA 1951) | 20.12.1966 - 13.01.1968 First Date in Commission | |
| 02 | CDR. Benton, Hugh Arthur, USN (USNA 1952) :RADM | 13.01.1968 - 04.11.1970 | |
| 03 | CDR. Minton III, David Carson, USN (USNA 1956) | 04.11.1970 - 15.12.1972 | |
| 04 | CDR. Balderston, Buele Gene, USN (USNA 1951) | 15.12.1972 - 31.03.1973 | |
| 05 | CDR. Rich, Willis Scott, USN (USNA 1956) | 31.03.1973 - 09.07.1975 | |
| 06 | LCDR. Kanady Jr., Garland Harold, USN | 09.07.1975 - 09.02.1979 | |
| 07 | CDR. Vaughan, Raymond Edmon, USN (USNA 1963) | 09.02.1979 - 07.05.1982 | |
| 08 | CAPT. Maurer Jr., John Howard, USN (USNA 1962) | 07.05.1982 - 02.07.1982 | |
| 09 | CDR. Oltraver, Dennis Allen, CDR USN | 02.07.1982 - 24.08.1985 | |
| 10 | CDR. Hack, Theodore Walter (Ted), USN | 24.08.1985 - 07.11.1987 | |
| 11 | CDR. Bryant, James Brantley, USN (USNA 1971) | 07.11.1987 - 17.11.1990 | |
| 12 | CDR. Higgins, Paul Michael, USN | 17.11.1990 - 04.02.1992 Last Date in Commission | |
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