USS Flying Fish (SSN-673) off Norfolk, Virginia, ca. 1972-1973. |
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| Career (United States) | |
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| 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 |
| Struck: | 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 |
| Displacement: | 3,978 long tons (4,042 t) light 4,270 long tons (4,339 t) full 292 long tons (297 t) dead |
| 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 |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) surfaced 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) submerged |
| Test depth: | 1,300 feet (396 meters) |
| Complement: | 109 (14 officers, 95 enlisted men) |
| Armament: | 4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
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 of tropic and warm temperate seas whose long winglike fins make it possible for them to move some distance through the air.
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The contract to build Flying Fish was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 15 July 1966 and her keel was laid down there on 30 June 1967. She was launched on 17 May 1969, sponsored by Mrs. John W. Harvey, and commissioned on 29 April 1970 with Commander Donald C. Shelton in command.
In 1976, she won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for the United States Atlantic Fleet.
Flying Fish was decommissioned on 16 May 1996 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register the same day. Her scrapping via the Nuclear-Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, was completed on 15 October 1996.
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