USS Jack (SSN-605), probably during sea trials off New England in 1967. |
|
| Career (US) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Jack |
| Namesake: | Jack, the name of various types of fish |
| Ordered: | 13 March 1959 |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard |
| Laid down: | 16 September 1960 |
| Launched: | 24 April 1963 |
| Commissioned: | 31 March 1967 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 July 1990 |
| Struck: | 11 July 1990 |
| Fate: | Recycling via Ship-Submarine Recycling Program completed 30 June 1992 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Permit-class submarine |
| Displacement: | 3,968 tons surfaced |
| Length: | 297 ft 4 in (90.63 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 7 in (9.63 m) |
| Draft: | 25 ft 4 in (7.72 m) |
| Propulsion: | S5W reactor |
| Speed: | More than 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 95 officers and men |
| Armament: | 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Jack (SSN-605), a Permit-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the jack, any young pike, green pike or pickerel, or large California rockfish.
The contract to build her was awarded to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine on 13 March 1959 and her keel was laid down on 16 September 1960. She was launched on 24 April 1963 (sponsored by Mrs. Grace Groves, the wife of Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves, head of the Manhattan Project) and commissioned on 31 March 1967, with Commander Louis T. Urbanczyk, Jr., in command.
Jack was a variation on the Permit class, 20 feet (6.1 m) longer than her sisters and using an experimental direct-drive plant with two contra-rotating propellers on a single shaft.
Jack was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 11 July 1990. Ex-Jack entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, and on 30 June 1992 ceased to exist.
The USS Jack Web page at [1] for more information
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
|
|
||||||||