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 | 413k | The Aspro (SSN-648) was sponsored by Mrs. Robert Hayes Burns Baldwin. Her husband was the chairman of Morgan Stanley when the bank was taken public in the 1970s. He is noted for significantly expanding the wealth of the firm during his tenure there. He was also appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to be the Undersecretary of the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. Photo of Robert H. B. Baldwin in 1977. He was credited with pulling the firm out of its white-shoe rut. | Text courtesy of wikipedia.org Photo courtesy of Neal Boenzi & www.nytimes.com |
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 | 650k | Aspro (SSN-648) goes Hawaiian, circa 1970-1971. | Photo courtesy of Richard Albright, GMG3, via Fred Willshaw. | |
 | 47k | Aspro (SSN-648), entering Pearl Harbor during the early 70's. | Courtesy of John Hummel, USN (Retired). | |
 | 136k | Another photo behind the palm trees that every submarine seems to pass is the fate of the Aspro (SSN-648), as she enters Pearl Harbor, circa 1980. Note the small private plane above the trees. | Official USN photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. | |
 | 1.91k | Welcome Aboard the Aspro (SSN-648) PDF, circa 1980. | PDF courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 26k | The sail of the Aspro (SSN-648) at the North Pole on 20 November 1982 during a winter rendezvous with Tautog (SSN-639), visible in the background. This meeting was detailed in the December 1983 All Hands article on page 20 Rendezvous at the North Pole in 1982. | USN photo courtesy of Arctic Submarine Laboratory & csp.navy.mil. Link courtesy of Ken Olsen. | |
 | 43k | Oil on canvas painting by the artist Jim Christley entitled "Trailing". During the Cold War the US Naval Submarine Force was tasked with keeping tabs on Soviet Naval movements in particular, the Soviet Submarine Force. Submarines of the Sturgeon Class were well suited to this task and often trailed Soviet submarines for days reporting on their movements and recording noise signatures. In this image, such a trailing has turned into a close aboard encounter as a Soviet Viktor III Class has turned to port to check his baffles (to listen to see if anyone is immediately astern). A trailing Sturgeon has stopped his screw and gone quiet. Extending far behind the US submarine is its towed array sonar which assists in giving a clear picture of the ocean's acoustics. | Photo & text courtesy of subart.net. | |
 | 145k | Submerged submarines in tandem. | USN photo courtesy of Robert Hall. | |
 0864813 | 558k | The Golden Gate & Aspro (SSN-648) photo signed by former CO J.C. Warthin. | Photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 2.6m | A sketch of Aspro (SSN-648) in Mare Island's dry dock #1 in 1989 by crew member MM1/SS Kenneth Olsen. The structures on either side of her hull are environmental enclosures used primary for installation and repair of sound-absorbing rubber tiles (special hull treatment). | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 136k | The floating drydock Competent (AFDM-6) starts flooding to re-float Aspro (SSN-648) at Pearl Harbor, April 1992. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Weeks. | |
 | 135k | Aspro (SSN-648), crew photo taken while she was up on keel blocks in Competent (AFDM-6), at Pearl Harbor, February to April 1992. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Weeks. | |
 | 118k | Competent (AFDM-6), flooding to refloat Aspro (SSN-648) at Pearl Harbor, April 1992. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Weeks. | |
 | 780k | Aspro (SSN-648) at Pearl Harbor. | Photo courtesy of Jim Stats and submitted by Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 2.68k | Change of Command & Inactivation Ceremony PDF for the Aspro (SSN-648) at Pearl Harbor, 23 September 1994. | PDF courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 31k | Haddock (SSN-621), at top, followed by Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Aspro (SSN-648), Bergall (SSN-667) and Silversides (SSN-679) at bottom, awaiting scrapping at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 2000. | Photo courtesy of Don Shelton. | |
 | 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 | CDR. Wight, Roy Ryan, USN (USNA 1954) | 20.02.1969 - 28.07.1971 First Date in Commission | |
| 02 | CDR. Harris, Robert Henry, USN (USNA 1956) | 28.07.1971 - 31.12.1973 | |
| 03 | CDR. Wagner, Edward Francis, USN (USNA 1960) | 31.12.1973 - 30.07.1977 | |
| 04 | CDR. Warthin, Jonathan Carver, USN (USNA 1962) | 30.07.1977 - 21.11.1980 | |
| 05 | CDR. Gustavson, Fred Perry, USN (USNA 1965) :RADM | 21.11.1980 - 10.11.1983 | |
| 06 | CDR. Martin, Michael Dean, USN (USNA 1967) | 10.11.1983 - 10.05.1986 | |
| 07 | CDR. Etter, Thomas Harold, USN (USNA 1969) | 10.05.1986 - 27.05.1989 | |
| 08 | CDR. Borchardt, John Andrew (Andy), USN | 27.05.1989 - 21.02.1992 | |
| 09 | CDR. Willy, James Michael, USN (USNA 1976) | 21.02.1992 - 23.09.1994 | |
| 10 | CDR. Sauls, Mitchell Keith, USN (USNA 1978) | 23.09.1994 - 31.03.1995 Last Date in Commission | |
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