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Career | |
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Awarded: | 23 March 1963 |
Laid down: | 5 May 1964 |
Launched: | 3 June 1967 |
Commissioned: | 15 May 1971 |
Fate: | Disposed of by submarine recycling |
Stricken: | 11 June 1999 |
General Characteristics | |
Displacement: | 3975 tons light, 4263 tons full, 288 tons dead |
Length: | 89 meters (292 feet) |
Beam: | 9.7 meters (32 feet) |
Draft: | 8.8 meters (29 feet) |
Powerplant: | S5W reactor |
Speed: | 15 knots surfaced, 25 knots submerged |
Depth: | 1300 feet |
Complement: | 14 officers, 95 men |
Armament: | four 21-inch torpedo tubes |
Six months later, on 7 December 1967, the contract for construction of Pogy was reassigned to Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and the incomplete submarine was towed to that yard on 8 January 1968 for completion. Pogy was commissioned on 15 May 1971.
See USS Pogy for other ships of the same name.
References
This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.