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 | 69k | Lapon (SSN-661) was sponsored by Mrs. Charles D. Griffin. In this photo Admiral John S. Thach, USN, Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe (left), pays a farewell call on Admiral Charles D. Griffin, USN, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Southern Europe, at Naples, Italy, in April 1967. | USN photo # NH 92748 & text courtesy of wikipedia.org | |
 | 262k | Lapon's (SSN-661) laddies layered in length lay their salutes during her launching on 16 December 1966. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 979k | Lapon (SSN-661) lays lulling lethargically after her launching on 16 December 1966. | USN photo # NPC 1119816 courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 492k | Ten page PDF of the launching the Lapon (SSN-661), 16 December 1966. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 265k | Lapon (SSN-661) lays laps lengthwise during her trials in 1967. | USN photo # NPC 1127800 courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 615k | Lapon (SSN-661) looms large during her trials in December 1967. | USN photo # NPC K-42261 courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 84k | Lapon (SSN-661) underway, probably during her sea trials, 1967, off the Virginia coast. | USN photo. | |
 | 52k | Bow on view of the Lapon (SSN-661) underway, probably during her sea trials, 1967, off the Virginia coast. | Official USN photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. | |
 | 21k | Lapon (SSN-661) at D&S Piers, Naval Station Norfolk, VA., December 1968. | Courtesy of John Hummel, USN (Retired). | |
 | 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. | |
 | 178k | CDR. Chester M. "Whitey" Mack was skipper of the Lapon (SSN-661) from 14 December 1967 to 8 September 1970. It may have been the sharpest submarine in the U.S. Navy when he was at the helm. Despite the fact his boat was named for the ugliest fish in the sea, Mack and his crew were good—they knew it. During the three years he skippered the Sturgeon Class atomic attack sub, it won every award the Navy gave for operational excellence. This was probably the only U.S. Navy submarine to have it's own slot machine next to the Coke machine! | USN photo & text courtesy of Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 142k | Lapon (SSN-661) off the Virginia Capes 15 March 1971. | Official USN photograph courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 88k | Lapon (SSN-661) at D&S Piers, Naval Station Norfolk, VA., September 1974. | Courtesy of Ronald Barker, Capt USAF (Retired). | |
 | 999k | This photo of Lapon (SSN-661) was given to a group of Mare Island employees on 2 November, 1978 who did some work on Lapon by the ship's commanding officer. | Courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 28k | Commemorative postal cover with Lapon's (SSN-661) patch on the occasion of the boat's visit to the Bahamas on 11 December 1978. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 82k | Lapon (SSN-661), April 1987 at the North Pole. | USN photograph courtesy of sentner.com & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 68k | The sail of the Lapon (SSN-661) protrudes through the ice at the North Pole, 6 April 1988. | USN photo courtesy of US Navy Arctic Submarine Laboratory & csp.navy.mil. | |
 | 1.01k | ICEX-88 and Lapon (SSN-661) in April 1988. | Photo courtesy of Bela I. Marton, MSEE, PE(I). | |
 | 804k | A port bow view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Lapon (SSN-661) underway off the Virginia Capes, 1 February 1991. | USN photo # DN-ST-91-05700, by Wise, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
 | 82k | Twin Towing: Between 8/17 and 8/21 Guitarro (SSN-665) & Lapon (SSN-661) being towed from Mare Island, where they had been decommissioned and defueled, to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS) in Bremerton, Washington. Guitarro next to rescue and salvage vessel Conserver, (ARS-39), with Lapon in the background. At this point, the harbor tugs were transferring Guitarro and Lapon to ocean-going tugs. Guitarro and Lapon were decommissioned at the same time and towed to PSNS at the same time. | Photo i.d. via Terry Munger. Photo courtesy of John MacKay. |
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 | 231k | Lapon with the Oakland Bay Bridge in the background. | Photo courtesy of John MacKay. | |
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683k | An aerial view of a section of the Ship Intermediate Maintenance Facility at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1993.
One submarine tender and 16 decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are shown including the Seawolf (SSN-575); six George Washington, and Lafayette class SSBN's (with their missile sections cut out) plus several Skate, Skipjack, Permit and Sturgeon class SSN's. All are awaiting scrapping. 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). |
Official USN photo # DN-ST-95-01863, by Calvin Larsen, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. Photo i.d. courtesy of David Johnston. | |
 | 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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19k | Triton (SSRN-586) photo taken in October 98 by a Independence (CVA-62) crew member. Lapon (SSN-661) is in the background. | Courtesy of Don Shelton. | |
 | 27k | From left to right, Drum (SSN-677), Bluefish (SSN-675), Ray (SSN-653), Lapon (SSN-661) and Richard B. Russell (SSN-687) await scrapping at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 1998. | Courtesy of Don Sheldon. | |
 | 33k | Commemorative postal cover marking the completion of scrapping of the Tautog (SSN-639) & Lapon (SSN-661) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA. 31 August 2002. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 174k | The sail of the Lapon (SSN-661) taken at the its dedication in July 2005. Her final resting place is the American Legion, Post 639 located in Springfield, MO. | Courtesy of Dale E Loney,(DSCC). | |
 | 129k | Lapon's (SSN-661) Plaque showing her final location: The American Legion, Post 639 located in Springfield, MO. | Courtesy of Dale E Loney,(DSCC). | |
 | 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. Mack, Chester Michael (Whitey), USN | 14.12.1967 - 08.09.1970 First Date in Commission | |
| 02 | CDR. Green, Gerald Edward, USN (USNA 1956) | 08.09.1970 - 06.04.1974 | |
| 03 | CDR. Wilkins, Perry, USN | 06.04.1974 - 29.10.1977 | |
| 04 | CDR. Murray II, Tom Reed, USN (USNA 1961) | 29.10.1977 - 22.05.1981 | |
| 05 | CAPT. Baumstark, James Schilling, USN (USNA 1964) | 22.05.1981 - 28.03.1985 | |
| 06 | CDR. Mackin, John Joseph, USN (USNA 1968) | 28.03.1985 - 15.09.1988 | |
| 07 | CDR. Flannery, Peter Andrew, USN (USNA 1971) | 15.09.1988 - 24.05.1990 | |
| 08 | CDR. Fursman, Thomas Michael, USN | 24.05.1990 - 08.08.1992 Last Date in Commission | |
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