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1.96k | Seahorse (SSN-669) getting her bow flag in preparation for her launching. | UPI photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
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201k | Bubbly for Seahorse (SSN-669) is served by Mrs. Paul R. Ignatius, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, on 15 June 1968. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com | |
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219k | Seahorse (SSN-669), sliding down the ways at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 15 June 1968. | Courtesy of John Hummel, USN (Retired). | |
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166k | Seahorse (SSN-669) afloat for the first time. | USN photo courtesy of Dale Hargrave. | |
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127k | Seahorse (SSN-669) being towed to dock after launching. | USN photo # NPC 1133392 courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
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310k | Seahorse (SSN-669) on sea trials,7 August 1969. | USN photo # NPC 1130985 courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
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259k | Seahorse (SSN-669) on sea trials,7 August 1969. | USN photo # NPC 1140984 courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
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23k | Commemorative post mark on the occasion of Seahorse's (SSN-669) first day in commission, 19 September 1969. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
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22k | Commemorative post mark on the occasion of Seahorse's (SSN-669) first day in commission, 19 September 1969. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
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47k | Starboard view of the Seahorse (SSN-669), possibly in St. Croix sometime after commissioning, circa 1970. | Photo courtesy of Joe Kubenka, courtesy of ussseahorse.org. | |
 | 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. | |
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55k | Starboard view of the Seahorse (SSN-669), underway in 1985, location unknown. | Courtesy of ussseahorse.org. | |
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46k | Starboard side view of the Seahorse (SSN-669) taken in 1986 from Cooper River bridge in Charleston SC. (John P. Grace Memorial Bridge or Pearman Bridge.) | Text i.d. via Vaughn Mortimer. Photo courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). |
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32k | Sail of the Seahorse (SSN-669), protruding through the Arctic ice, July 1986. | Photo courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
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50k | The Seahorse (SSN-669), with ice floes through the Arctic ice, July 1986. | Photo courtesy of Vaughn Mortimer / Asa Wilson, boat photographers 1986-88. | |
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166k | A port beam view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Seahorse (SSN-669) at sunrise, headed for the Panama Canal, 20 May 1989. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-89-10061 by PH2 Mark S. Kettenhofen, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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383k | A PBR Mark 2 riverine patrol boat from Special Boat Unit 26 (SBU-26) accompanies the nuclear-powered attack submarine Seahorse (SSN-669) into the Miraflores locks, 20 May 1989. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-89-10059 by PH2 Mark S. Kettenhofen, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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307k | Officers and crew stand on the deck and sail of the nuclear powered attack submarine Seahorse (SSN-669) as the boat waits in a canal lock. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-89-10068 by PH2 Mark S. Kettenhofen, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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33k | Commemorative post mark on the occasion of Seahorse (SSN-669) participation in Ice Ex '90. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
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171k | Naval personnel stand on the deck of the nuclear-powered submarines Seahorse (SSN-669), during operations in the Arctic ice off of Alaska. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-90-07309 by PH1 Harry Gerwien, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.& submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
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441k | Naval personnel stand by the sail structure of the nuclear-powered submarine Seahorse (SSN-669), which has broken through the Arctic ice off of Alaska, 24 March 1990. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-90-07303 by PH1 Harry Gerwien, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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479k | Crew members emerge from the nuclear-powered submarine Seahorse (SSN-669) shortly after the vessel surfaced at the North Pole during exercise Ice Ex '90. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-90-08030, by PH1 Harry Gerwien, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. & submitted by Bill Gonyo. | |
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346k | Crew members stand on the bow of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Gurnard (SSN-662), background, as others gather nearby to watch the nuclear-powered attack submarine Seahorse (SSN-669) surface through the ice during exercise Ice Ex '90, 25 March 1990. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-90-08033 by PH1 Harry Gerwien, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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480k | Crew members emerge from the nuclear-powered attack submarine Seahorse (SSN-669) shortly after the vessel surfaced through the ice at the North Pole during exercise Ice Ex '90. The sail of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Gurnard (SSN-662), which also just surfaced, can be seen on the horizon. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-90-08032 by PH1 Harry Gerwien, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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563k | The camp, used as a support base for under-ice operations of the nuclear-powered submarines Gurnard (SSN-662) and Seahorse (SSN-669), is dwarfed by the snow and icebound seascape. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-90-07317 by PH1 Harry Gerwien, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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323k | With a P-3 Orion aircraft patrolling overhead, the nuclear-powered submarine Seahorse (SSN-669) surfaces through the Arctic ice off of Alaska, 31 March 1990. | Official USN photo # DN-ST-90-07300 by PH1 Harry Gerwien, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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384k | An overhead view of the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CV-67) battle group underway en route to the Mediterranean Sea on 16 October 1992. The other ships in the group are: the nuclear-powered attack submarines Albuquerque (SSN-706) and Seahorse (SSN-669); the guided missile cruisers Gettysburg (CG-64), Leyte Gulf (CG-55) and Wainwright (CG-28); the destroyer Caron (DD-970); the frigates Capodanno (FF-1093), Halyburton (FFG-40) and Mcinerney (FFG-8); the destroyer tender Puget Sound (AD-38); the ammunition ship Santa Barbara (AE-28); and the replenishment oiler Kalamazoo (AOR-6). | Official USN photo # DN-SC-93-00851 by CWO2 Kenneth H. Brewer, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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313k | A starboard bow view of the nuclear-powered attack submarine Seahorse (SSN-669) underway. The Seahorse is en route to the Mediterranean Sea as part of the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CV-67) battle group. | Official USN photo # DN-SC-93-00865 by CWO2 Kenneth H. Brewer, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
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55k | The Seahorse (SSN-669) underway, date unknown. | Photo courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
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24k | Commemorative post mark on the occasion of Seahorse's (SSN-669) decommissioning, 17 August 1995. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
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1.12k | Seven page Decommissioning Ceremony PDF for the Seahorse (SSN-669) on 17 August 1995. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 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. Harper Jr., George Thomas, USN (USNA 1954) | 19.09.1969 - 25.09.1970 First Date in Commission | |
| 02 | CDR. Ratliff, William Earl, USN | 25.09.1970 - 13.12.1973 | |
| 03 | CDR. Heuberger, Nathan Albert, USN (USNA 1960) | 13.12.1973 - 22.01.1977 | |
| 04 | CDR. McKinney, Henry Clayton, USN :RADM | 22.01.1977 - 12.06.1980 | |
| 05 | CDR. Sharpe Jr., Joseph Daniel, USN (USNA 1963) | 12.06.1980 - 23.08.1983 | |
| 06 | CAPT. Johnston Jr., Jasper Brinson, USN (USNA 1965) | 23.08.1983 - 11.04.1985 | |
| 07 | CDR. Harding, Wynn Allen, USN (USNA 1968) | 11.04.1985 - 31.08.1987 | |
| 08 | CDR. Taylor, Paul Edwin, USN | 31.08.1987 - 22.06.1990 | |
| 09 | CDR. Alley, James Ray, USN | 22.06.1990 - 30.04.1993 | |
| 10 | CDR. Current, Richard Noel, USN (USNA 1977) | 30.04.1993 - 25.08.1995 Last Date in Commission | |
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