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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive


Contributed by Mike Smolinski
Radio Call Sign: November - Uniform - Bravo - Lima

Sea Devil (SSN-664)

Sturgeon Class Attack Submarine: Laid down, 12 April 1966, at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA.: Launched, 5 October 1967; Commissioned, USS Sea Devil (SSN-664), 28 June 1968; Decommissioned and simultaneously struck from the Naval Register, 16 October 1991; Final Disposition, entered the NPSSRP (Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 1 March 1998, completed program, 7 September 1999.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 3,640 t., Submerged: 4,640 t.; Length 292' 3"; Beam 31' 8"; Draft 28' 8"; Speed, Surfaced 15 kts, Submerged 25 kts; Depth limit 1,300'; Complement 108; Armament, four 21" torpedo tubes amidships aft of bow, MK 48 Torpedoes, UUM-44A SUBROC, UGM-84A/C Harpoon, MK 57 deep water mines, MK 60 CAPTOR mines; Combat Sensors, Radar, BPS-14/15 surface search, Sonars, BQQ-5 multi-function bow mounted, BQR-7 passive in submarines with BQQ-2, BQS-12 active 7, TB-16 or TB-23 towed array, EW Systems, WLQ-4(V), WLR-4(V), WLR-9 ; Propulsion System, one S5W nuclear reactor, two steam turbines, one propeller, 15,000 shp.
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0866412		533k NNS photo of the 1967 christening of the Sea Devil (SSN-664). Her sponsor was Mrs. Ignatius J. Galantin, wife of Adm. Galantin, Chief of Naval Material (standing in the background). Photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave.
Sea Devil1.21kCleaning up after the launching ceremony on the Sea Devil (SSN-664) on 5 October 1967.USN photo courtesy # NPC 127361 of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
Sea Devil63kThe Sea Devil (SSN-664) at sea, five months after commissioning, 20 November 1968. Courtesy of Newport News Shipbuilding, photo by Nixon.
Sea Devil125kSea Devil (SSN-664), underway, possibly during her sea trials off the Virginia coast, 1968. Official USN photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr.
Sturgeon Class43k 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.
Submerged submarines145kSubmerged submarines in tandem.USN photo courtesy of Robert Hall.
Sea Devil58kSea Devil (SSN-664), inbound off Virginia Capes, March 1969. Photo copyright AFS / Nobe Smith, submitted by Bill Gonyo.
Sea Devil 90k Sea Devil (SSN-664), Hammerhead (SSN-663) and Ray (SSN-653), three Sturgeon class (SSN-637) subs at pier 22, Norfolk VA. 1970-71. Sub tender L.Y. Spear (AS-36) is on the starboard side of the Sea Devil. Courtesy of Paul Payne, USN (Retired).
Sea Devil1.40kSea Devil (SSN-664) on 10 August 1971.USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
Sea Devil1.06kThirteen page Welcome Aboard Sea Devil (SSN-664) PDF.USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
Bluefish38kBluefish (SSN-675),(outboard) & Sea Devil (SSN-664) at D&S Piers Norfolk, VA. 1975.Courtesy of John Hummel, USN (Retired).
Hammerhead1.23kSea Devil (SSN-664) celebrates the bicentennial, 1976.USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
Sea Devil13kSea Devil (SSN-664), entering harbor of Portsmouth, England, May 1980. Courtesy of CDR M.J. Holden via tripod.com.
Sea Devil384k A starboard bow view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Sea Devil (SSN-664), underway off the Virginia Capes, 1 February 1991. Official USN photo # DN-SN-82-09744, by PH2 J. Vinson, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
North Pole83kU.S. and British sailors explore the Arctic ice cap while conducting the first U.S./British coordinated surfacing at the North Pole. The ships are, left to right: the nuclear-powered attack submarines Sea Devil (SSN-664), HMS Superb(S-109) and the Billfish (SSN-676), 18 May 1987. Text i.d. via John Hummel.
Official USN photo # DN-ST-87-09889, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
Sea Devil89U.S. and British sailors explore the Arctic ice cap while conducting the first U.S./British coordinated surfacing at the North Pole. The ships are, left to right: the nuclear-powered attack submarine Sea Devil (SSN-664), the fleet submarine HMS Superb (S-109) , and the nuclear-powered attack submarine Billfish (SSN-676), 18 May 1987. Official USN photo # DN-ST-87-09888, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
PSNSY 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.
PSNSY291k"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).
Spent Fuel569kSealed 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).
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Commanding Officers
01CDR. Currier, Richard Andrews, USN (USNA 1954)30.01.1969 - 02.10.1970 First Date in Commission
02CDR. Fountain, Robert Roy, USN (USNA 1955) :RADM02.10.1970 - 20.03.1974
03CDR. Chabot, Peter Gordon, USN (USNA 1960) :RADM20.03.1974 - 21.07.1977
04CDR. Blaha, Douglas Dean, USN21.07.1977 - 30.08.1980
05CDR. Boyce, Robert William, USN30.08.1980 - 07.01.1984
06CDR. Mies, Richard Willard, USN (USNA 1967) :ADM07.01.1984 - 14.11.1986
07CDR. Napior, Dennis Arthur, USN (USNA 1970)14.11.1986 - 12.01.1989
08CDR. Cook, Robert Bartlett, USN (USNA 1972)12.01.1989 - 16.10.1991 Last Date in Commission
Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler
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