USS Flying Fish (SSN-673)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Flying Fish.
USS Flying Fish (SSN-673), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flying fish, any of number of fishes whose long winglike fins make it possible for them to move some distance through the air.
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United States | |
Name | USS Flying Fish |
Namesake | The flying fish |
Ordered | 15 July 1966 |
Builder | Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation at Groton, Connecticut |
Laid down | 30 June 1967 |
Launched | 17 May 1969 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. John W. Harvey |
Commissioned | 29 April 1970 |
Decommissioned | 16 May 1996 |
Stricken | 16 May 1996 |
Honors and awards | Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for U.S. Atlantic Fleet 1976 |
Fate | Scrapping via Ship and Submarine Recycling Program completed 15 October 1996 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sturgeon-class attack submarine |
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Length | 292 ft 3 in (89.08 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
Draft | 28 ft 8 in (8.74 m) |
Installed power | 15,000 shaft horsepower (11.2 megawatts) |
Propulsion | One S5W nuclear reactor, two steam turbines, one screw |
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Test depth | 1,300 feet (396 meters) |
Complement | 109 (14 officers, 95 enlisted men) |
Armament | 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
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