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Drum (SSN-677)
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 | 338k | Dated 20 August 1968, keel cover letter of Drum (SSN-677). The Drum was the 17th nuclear submarine built at the shipyard. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 881k | Group ready to official lay the keel of the Drum (SSN-677) at Mare Island on 20 August 1968 are from left to right are: William J. Parker Jr., (Electrician with 45 years' service on the yard), Danny O'Donnell (Mare Island Metal Trades Council)R. S. Driver (Asst Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs). RADM N. Frankenberger, Fred W. Nichelini (Shipbuilding Inspection Specialist) and Harry H. Kitterman (Superintendent of Rigger Shop). | USN photo # 86437-8-68 courtesy of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 76k | Dated 20 August 1968. RADM Norbert Frankenberger (Shipyard Commander Mare Island) authenticating keel of Drum (SSN-677). | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 92k | The keel plate of the Drum (SSN-677) seen after RADM N. Frankenberger authenticated the keel on 20 August 1968 at Mare Island. Note: At this time Mare Island and Hunters Point shipyards were under a single management team called San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 826k | Here is a rare photo of the Drum (SSN-677) on the building way at Mare Island on 10 May 1970. US Army Barge BG-6383 is to the far left and YC-982 is in the middle. | USN photo # MINSY 98059 courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 63k | The launching party of the Drum (SSN-677) showing from left to right Mr. Daniel Z. Henkin, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) principal speaker; Mrs. William F. Bringle, Sponsor; RADM N. Frankenberger, Shipyard Commander, 23 May 1970. | USN photo # 98299-5-70, courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 731k | Official launching party for the Drum (SSN-677) at Mare Island on 23 May 1970. Seated Left to right: Mrs. Joseph H. Thorton, Mrs. Harry Mason, Mrs. Daniel Z. Henkin, Mrs. Peter Horne (Matron of Honor), Mrs. William F. Bringle (Sponsor), Mrs. N. Frankenberger, Mrs. Glenn Thomson and Mrs. William Greig. Standing left to right: Capt. Thorton (Production Officer), RADM Mason (NAVSHIPS), Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Henkin speaker at the launching, Dan Bringle, son of VADM William F. Bringle (COMNAVAIRPAC), RADM N. Frankenberger and LCDR Thomson (Chaplain) and W. E. Greig (triggerman). | USN photo # 98306-5-70 courtesy of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 65k | Drum (SSN-677) launching party from left to right VADM William F. Bringle, Commander Naval Air Pacific; Mrs. Peter Horne, Matron of Honor; Mr. Daniel Z. Henkin, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs), principal speaker; Mrs. William F. Bringle, Sponsor; Mrs. N. Frankenberger; RADM N. Frankenberger; LT William M. Zondorak, Aide to RADM Frankenberger, 23 May 1970. | USN photo # 98315-5-70, courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 700k | Mrs. William F. Bringle, Ship's Sponsor, (left) and Mrs. Peter Horne, Matron of Honor (right) at the reception for the launching of Drum (SSN-677) at Mare Island on 23 May 1970. | USN photo # 98298-5-70 courtesy of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 887k | Mrs. William F. Bringle (Sponsor) christens Drum (SSN-677) on 23 May 1970 as RADM N. Frankenberger watches. | USN photo # 98303-5-70 courtesy of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 123k | This photo appeared in the Mare Island Naval Shipyard newspaper the "Grapevine" on 5 June 1971. The picture shows Mrs. W. F. Bringle, Sponsor, christening the Drum (SSN-677) 23 May 1970. RADM N. Frankenberger, USN (Shipyard Commander) and Capt. J. H. Thornton, USN (Production Officer) look on. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 151k | The Drum (SSN-677) has just been christened and started to travel down the building ways at Mare Island on 23 May 1970. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 161k | The Drum (SSN-677) is at the end of the ways during her launching at Mare Island on 23 May 1970. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 923k | The Drum (SSN-677) is waterborne after her launching at Mare Island on 23 May 1970. | USN photo courtesy of Michael Witt. | |
 | 161k | The Drum (SSN-677) is waterborne for the first time at Mare Island on 23 May 1970. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 168k | Drum (SSN-677) at the end of the ways at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 23 May 1970. | USN photo # 98309-5-70, courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 221k | Drum (SSN-677) in mid channel after launching at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 23 May 1970. | USN photo # 98358-5-70courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 146k | Tugs push the Drum (SSN-677) to her outfitting berth after launching at Mare Island on 23 May 1970. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 29k | Commemorative postal cover marking the launching of the Drum (SSN-677) 23 May 1970 and different types of ships built at the Mare Island Navy Yard, CA. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 385k | Drum (SSN-677) undergoing inclining at Mare Island on 26 December 1971. | USN photo # 108074-12-71 courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 3.14k | The front cover of Drum (SSN-677) 13 page PDF Commissioning Program and its back showing vital statistics on the sub. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 744k | A view of the commissioning ceremonies of the Drum (SSN-677) at Mare Island on 15 April 1972. | USN photo # 110101-4-72 courtesy of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 668k | CDR James Willis (CO, Drum (SSN-677)) presented plaques following the commissioning to RADM Maurice H. Rindskopf, commissioning speaker and former CO of Drum (SS-228), and Capt. Newton B. Foss who accepted the plaque in behalf of the ship's sponsor, Mrs. William F. Bringle. | USN photo # 110102-4-72 courtesy of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 114k | Builder's plaque (Fleet Introduction Site) on display during the commissioning ceremonies for the Drum (SSN-677) on 15 April 1972 at Mare Island. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 68k | Officer of the Deck, Drum (SSN-677) salutes Admirals flag during the commissioning ceremonies aboard the ship at Mare Island on 15 April 1972. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 86k | Drum (SSN-677) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 15 April 1972 during her commissioning ceremony. The photo is taken looking southeast across the Mare Island Channel at Vallejo, CA. The large building across the channel is the rear of the main post office. The small boat in the background in the Mare Island to Vallejo ferry. She is bringing swing shift workers over from Vallejo and therefore time is about 3:15 - 3:25 PM. Note: Crew topside is in dress blues. There is no Jack on the Jackstaff. If she was in commissioning it should be flying. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 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. | |
 | 1.07k | Thirteen page Welcome Aboard PDF of the Drum (SSN-677). | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 425k | A port quarter view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Drum (SSN-677) underway on 4 January 1984 passing under the Golden Gate Bridge. | Official USN photo # DN-SC-84-04128 from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 66k | Starboard quarter view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Drum (SSN-677) entering port on 11 August 1984. | Official USN photo # DN-SC-85-09446 by PHAN John D. Greathouse, USN, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 508k | Port bow view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Drum (SSN-677) entering port on 11 August 1984. | Official USN photo # DN-SC-85-09447 by PHAN John D. Greathouse, USN, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 314k | Starboard bow view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Drum (SSN-677) entering port accompanied by the large harbor tug Kittanning (YTB-787) on 11 August 1984. The Japanese Antarctic support ship Fuji (AB-5001) is in the background. | Official USN photo # DN-SC-85-09445 by PHAN John D. Greathouse, USN, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 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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 | 6.31k | Eighteen page Deactivation PDF of the Drum (SSN-677). | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 3.46k | Twelve page Inactivation PDF of the Drum (SSN-677). | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 88k | Commemorative postal cover marking the 100 anniversary of the submarine service on 11 April 2000, picturing the Drum (SSN-677) and listing all the Mare Island Navy Yard, CA. built nuclear attack submarines. | Courtesy of The Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum and submitted by Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 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., 8 October 2001. | Courtesy of Don Sheldon. | |
 | 66k | ex Long Beach (CGN-9) and some friends - namely ex Narwhal (SSN-671), ex Drum (SSN-677), and beyond ex Midway (CV-41). Shot taken January of 2003 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard just a few months prior to the ex Midway's move to San Diego. Also in the mix are some Spruance Class destroyers and the ex Ranger (CV-61) on the far side but out of sight here. | Courtesy of Larry Lee. | |
 | 285k | During a vacation trip August 2008 to the Seattle area I was able to get over to Port Orchard and get a shot of the ex Drum (SSN-677). It is next to the ex Narwhal (SSN-671) and Drum appears to be the last 637 Class "left standing". The efforts by the Mare Island Historic Park Commission to save the Drum have fallen through due to funding shortfalls and lack of local Gov't support. It is expected that the "recycling" of Drum will take place this winter. | Courtesy of Rick Wetmore. | |
 | 122k | Update of the ex Drum (SSN-677) next to the ex Narwhal (SSN-671) shows them to still be standing through the summer of 2009. | Courtesy of Scott Roche via Fabio Peña. | |
 | 144k | Salute to the Drum (SSN-677), 2010. | USN photo courtesy of Ron Reeves (of blessed memory). | |
 | 1.06k | The Drum (SSN-677) sails in a sea of green. | Photo courtesy of Glen Daigrepont. | |
 | 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. Willis Jr., James Langley, USN (USNA 1955) | 15.04.1972 - 10.07.1974 First Date in Commission | |
| 02 | CDR. Tarquin, Donald Charles, USN (USNA 1958) | 10.07.1974 - 19.11.1976 | |
| 03 | CDR. Bradley, Michael David, USN (USNA 1961) | 19.11.1976 - 00.05.1980 | |
| 04 | CDR. Oliver, Michael Frederick, USN (USNA 1964) | 00.05.1980 - 12.08.1983 | |
| 05 | CDR. Cox, Harold Louis, USN | 12.08.1983 - 18.04.1986 | |
| 06 | CDR. Winchell Jr., Donald Lind, USN | 18.04.1986 - 21.02.1989 | |
| 07 | CDR. Engelhardt, Bruce Bidwell, USN (USNA 1972) :RADM | 21.02.1989 - 22.11.1991 | |
| 08 | CDR. Thornton, Wayne Allen, USN (USNA 1974) | 22.11.1991 - 08.08.1994 | |
| 09 | CDR. Hall, Steven Clark, USN (USNA 1975) | 08.08.1994 - 27.04.1995 | |
| 10 | CDR. Sauls, Mitchell Keith, USN (USNA 1978) | 27.04.1995 - 30.10.1995 Last Date in Commission | |
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