USS Silversides (SSN-679)
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Career |
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| Ordered: | 25 June 1968 |
| Laid down: | 13 October 1969 |
| Launched: | 4 June 1971 |
| Commissioned: | 5 May 1972 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 July 1994 |
| Fate: | submarine recycling |
| Stricken: | 21 July 1994 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4159 tons light, tons full |
| Length: | 90.8 meters (298 feet) |
| Propulsion: | S5W reactor |
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USS Silversides (SSN-679), a Sturgeon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the silversides, a small fish marked with a silvery stripe along each side of its body. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 25 June 1968 and her keel was laid down on 13 October 1969. She was launched on 4 June 1971 sponsored by Mrs. John H. Chafee, wife of the then Secretary of the Navy, and commissioned on 5 May 1972, with Commander John E. Allen in command.
Following shakedown in the Atlantic and Caribbean, Silversides began operations in the Atlantic, homeported at Charleston, South Carolina.
- 22 years of history go here
Silversides was decommissioned on 21 July 1994 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 2 August 1994. Ex-Silversides entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, on 1 October 2000 and on 1 October 2001 ceased to exist.
See USS Silversides for other ships of the same name.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.