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 | 50k | Platform plan of Thresher (SSN-593) class submarines. | PDF courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 71k | Commemorative post mark on the occasion of Gato's (SSN-615) keel plate being laid, 15 December 1961. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 892k | Gato (SSN-615) Commissioning Plaque. | Courtesy of Tommy Trampp. | |
 | 750k | Gato (SSN-615) prior to the start of her launching ceremony. | General Dynamics photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 539k | Sponsor Mrs. Lawson P. Ramage preparing to christen the boat. Adm. Ramage is on the left. | General Dynamics photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 376k | Mrs. Lawson P. Ramage gives the Gato (SSN-615) a taste of things to come. | General Dynamics photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 638k | Gato (SSN-615) to go. | General Dynamics photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 570k | Gato (SSN-615) going. | General Dynamics photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
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168k | Gato (SSN-615) is waterborne at Electric Boat on 14 May 1964. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 171k | Launching program for the Gato (SSN-615) at Electric Boat on 14 May 1964. | Courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 164k | Gato's (SSN-615) sponsor, Mrs. Lawson P. Ramage. | Courtesy of Darryl L. Baker. | |
 | 27k | Commemorative post card marking the launching of the Gato (SSN-615), 14 May 1964. | Courtesy of Richard Leonhardt. | |
 | 456k | Gato (SSN-615) underway, probably off the Atlantic coast during her alpha sea-trials, circa 1965. | Official USN photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. via Robert Hurst. | |
 | 368k | Four page PDF Welcome Aboard pamphlet for the Gato (SSN-615). | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
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240k | Bow view of the Gato (SSN-615), topside on 13 October 1967. | USN photo # NPC 1127468 courtesy of Electric Boat & Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
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163k | Gato (SSN-615) off the New England coast on 13 October 1967. | USN photo # NPC 1127472 courtesy of Electric Boat & Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 1.70k | This shows the submarine tender Fulton (AS-11) alongside the State Pier, New London, CT. The date is approximately 1967-69. At the end of the pier is the submarine rescue vessel Skylark (ASR-20). Aft of the Fulton is the Gato (SSN-615), and moored in the nest next to the Fulton is Dace (SSN-607), Jack (SSN-605), and an unknown Thresher/Permit class boat (inboard in the nest). The unknown boat has a teardrop shaped sonar dome on the bow, an unusual installation for a 593 class boat. It is for the General Noise and Tonal System (GNATS), a jamming/decoy sonar system. Normally the dome is found mounted aft. A rough guess as to the identity of the unknown boat is Pollack (SSN-603). | USN photo courtesy of David Johnston Ric Hedman and Jim Christley contributed information for this photo. |
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194k | Rear Admiral Lawrence Burkhardt, III a native of New Jersey, was commissioned after attending the Naval Academy in 1954. His first assignment was onboard the escort carrier Point Cruz (CVE-119). Afterwards, he attended the Naval Submarine School where he received the L.Y. Spear Award. Following duty on the Trigger (SS-564), RADM Burkhardt underwent nuclear power training. Upon graduation, he served on the Nautilus (SSN-571) until 1961. He become Director, Submarine/Nuclear Power Personnel Division, Bureau of Naval Personnel. In 1976, he took command of Submarine Squadron FOUR. He served as Chief of Staff, Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet from 1977 to 1978, during which time he was selected for flag rank. He next served as Director, Attack Submarine Division in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, and May 1980 reported for duty as the Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Submarine Warfare). In August 1981, he assumed command of Submarine Group FIVE. From 1962 to 1964 he served for two years as XO on the Benjamin Franklin (SSB-640) (Blue). On 28 June 1969 he took command of the Gato (SSN-615). He served as CO until 3 September 1971, when he commenced a two year tour as XO of the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Long Beach (CGN-9). | USN photo # DN-SC-84-02622 from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. via Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 742k | Commissioning ceremony of the Gato (SSN-615) on 25 January 1968. The Navy band was not playing this song. | General Dynamics photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 568k | Commissioning ceremony of the Gato (SSN-615) on 25 January 1968. The weather may have made any veterans of the original Gato (SS-212) yearn for those warm summer days in August at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians. | General Dynamics photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
 | 160k | Gato (SSN-615), in floating drydock Shippingport ARDM-4, Groton, 1994. | Photo by Lester G. Palifka, submitted by Ken Hart. | |
 | 179k | View of starboard side, Floating drydock Shippingport (ARDM-4), Groton, 1994 with bow view of Gato (SSN-615). | Contributed by Ken Hart, photo courtesy of Lester Palifka. | |
 | 276k | Floating drydock Shippingport (ARDM-4), Groton, 1994 with port side stern view of Gato (SSN-615). | Contributed by Ken Hart, photo courtesy of Lester Palifka. | |
 | 276k | Floating drydock Shippingport (ARDM-4), Groton, 1994 with starboard stern view ofGato (SSN-615). | Contributed by Ken Hart, photo courtesy of Lester Palifka. | |
 | 126k | 2 page PDF showing front & back covers of Gato's (SSN-615) Departure Ceremony pamphlet, 7 April 1995. | USN photo courtesy of Ken Hart. | |
 | 461k | Five page PDF Decommissioning pamphlet for the Gato (SSN-615), 25 April 1996. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 42k | Starboard side close-up of sail of Gato (SSN-615) in Groton, May 1995. | Photo by Ken Hart. | |
 | 222k | Meal request ticket from Gato (SSN-615) mess, known as The Black Cat Cafe. | Photo by Ken Hart. | |
 | 222k | Gato (SSN-615), alongside at Groton, in May of 1995, shortly before her decommissioning. Gato had just returned from a one-week run, which included surfacing at the site where Thresher (SSN-593) sank, where a ceremony was held, including reciting the names of all who had perished with her, a twenty-one gun salute, a prayer recital, and a wreath tossed onto the grave site by Captain Rick Martinez USN, commanding Gato . I was privileged to be aboard that week. | Photo by Ken Hart. | |
 | 262k | Gato (SSN-615), forward line handling crew standing ready as we near New London after returning from the ceremony at Thresher's (SSN-593) gravesite. | Photo by Ken Hart. | |
 | 307k | Gato (SSN-615), sonar room, underway in May of 1995. | Photo by Ken Hart. | |
 | 303k | Gato (SSN-615), bridge cockpit, May 1995. | Photo by Ken Hart. | |
> | 23k | Lt. Michael J. Mosley glances at the intrusion of my lens in Gato's (SSN-615) bridge cockpit May 1995. | Photo by Ken Hart. | |
 | 216k | Gato's (SSN-615) pennants, May 1995. | Photo by Ken Hart. | |
 | 54k | Commemorative post mark on the occasion of Gato's (SSN-615) decommissioning, 24 April 1996. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 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. Baciocco Jr., Albert Joseph, USN (USNA 1953) :VADM | 25.01.1968 - 28.06.1969 First Date in Commission | |
| 02 | CDR. Burkhardt III, Lawrence, USN (USNA 1954) :RADM | 28.06.1969 - 03.09.1971 | |
| 03 | CDR. Harscheid, David George, USN | 03.09.1971 - 09.11.1974 | |
| 04 | CDR. Partlow, Robert Greider, USN (USNA 1961) | 09.11.1974 - 01.07.1978 | |
| 05 | CAPT. Asher III, John Wilson, USN (USNA 1963) | 01.07.1978 - 03.12.1980 | |
| 06 | CDR. Lee, Kenneth Arthur, USN | 03.12.1980 - 27.01.1984 | |
| 07 | CDR. Lawver, Allen Eugene, USN (USNA 1967) | 27.01.1984 - 19.02.1988 | |
| 08 | CDR. Shatzer Jr., Lewis Allen, USN (USNA 1971) | 19.02.1988 - 14.06.1990 | |
| 09 | CDR. Williams, Harold Aldrich, USN (USNA 1969) | 14.06.1990 - 04.09.1990 | |
| 10 | CDR. Allen, John Bruce, USN | 04.09.1990 - 24.03.1992 | |
| 11 | CDR. Zeller, Randel Leonard, USN (USNA 1975) | 24.03.1992 - 22.11.1994 | |
| 12 | CDR. Martinez, Ricardo, USN (USNA 1978) | 22.11.1994 - 24.04.1996 Last Date in Commission | |
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