USS Bonefish (SS-582)

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Bonefish on the surface of the water in 1988
Bonefish on the surface of the water in 1988
Overview
Order June 29, 1956
Keel laying June 3, 1957
Launch November 22, 1958
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning July 9, 1959
Decommissioning September 28, 1988
Whereabouts Wrecked
Technical specifications
displacement

2645 tons submerged

length

66.9 m

width

8.8 m

Draft

8.5 m

crew

approx. 10 officers, 70 men

drive

Diesel-electric, 1 wave

speed

about 20 knots

Armament

6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes

The USS Bonefish (SS-582) was a submarine of the United States Navy and was one of the Barbel-class submarine to. It was in service from 1959 to 1988.

history

SS-582 was commissioned in 1956 and laid down at New York Shipbuilding in 1957 . 1958 the submarine was launched and became Mrs. Lawrence L. Edge, the wife of the last commander of the USS Bonefish (SS-223) , in the name of Bonefish baptized after the fish genus bonefish . In 1959 the submarine was put into service.

After the test drives, the submarine was stationed in San Diego and moved from there in 1960 for the first mission to the Western Pacific. In 1961 the first overhaul followed in the Mare Island Naval Shipyard , where, among other things, the elevator was relocated to the tower . In 1962 the Bonefish moved back to the Far East. She was then stationed in Pearl Harbor , Hawaii, from where she returned to the western Pacific in 1964. Thereafter the boat was overhauled in the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard . It was not until 1966 that the Bonefish moved again, including to the Gulf of Tonkin , where the Vietnam War was raging. The following year, Bonefish stopped at ports in Japan, the Philippines and Hong Kong. In 1968/1969 it was again in the Pearl Harbor NSY. In mid-1969, the submarine then moved back to the Far East, as did in early 1971, when she was sailing off Vietnam again. This was followed by a one-year overhaul in the Pearl Harbor NSY, and it wasn't until 1974 that the Bonefish sailed again in the Western Pacific.

At the end of 1975, the Bonefish set out for exercises with the navies of Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, after which another overhaul was due, which lasted until mid-1977. After that, the submarine was relocated back to San Diego. From there, the Bonefish began the next mission to the West Pacific in 1978, followed by another overhaul in 1979, again in Pearl Harbor. The submarine then visited several Central and South American ports as part of the UNITAS maneuver . Another voyage to the Western Pacific followed in 1980, and in 1982 the boat was relocated to the Atlantic, from where she visited Hamburg , among other places . In 1983 the Bonefish was overtaken in the Charleston Naval Shipyard .

On April 24, 1988, the Bonefish conducted exercises off Florida with the frigate USS Carr (FFG-52) . After water got into the submarine's battery compartment, battery blocks exploded, igniting a fire. Bonefish showed up, the crew immediately left the boat and were picked up by Carr and USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) . The submarine was towed to Charleston, where three missing sailors were found dead in the boat. Since the Bonefish was already near the end of its service life, it was not repaired, but decommissioned on September 28th and sold and demolished in 1989.

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