USS Guitarro (SSN-665)
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| period of service |
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| Ordered: | 18th December 1964 |
| Keel laying: | December 9, 1965 |
| Launch: | July 27, 1968 |
| Commissioning: | September 9, 1972 |
| Decommissioning: | May 29, 1992 |
| Status: | Canceled |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement: | 4,870 tons submerged |
| Length: | 89 m |
| Width: | 9.7 m |
| Draft: | 8.9 m |
| Drive: | A S5W reactor |
| Crew: | 12 officers, 95 sailors |
The USS GUITARRO (SSN-665) was a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy and was part of the Sturgeon-class submarine . During the construction, the shipyard made a serious mistake that caused the half-finished boat to sink into water about 10 meters deep.
history
construction
The Guitarro was commissioned in 1964 and laid down in the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in December 1965 . The boat was launched in July 1968 and was due to enter service in January 1970. However, due to one of the bizarre accidents in the history of the Navy, this did not happen.
Sink
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On May 15, 1969, the equipment of the boat on the edge of the Napa River was still in full swing. Around 4 p.m., a group of civil engineers began calibrating the instruments. To do this, the men had to flood ballast tanks behind the center of gravity of the boat with around five tons of sea water. A short time later, a second group began to trim the ship independently. Since the boat was about two degrees stern-heavy, the men began to fill the forward ballast tanks with water. Until shortly before 8:00 p.m. the groups went about their work without knowing each other. The second group had been warned twice that the waves in the river were washing water into the hull through a hatch in the extremely low front part of the boat, but they ignored the warnings.
Around 7:45 p.m., the second group stopped their work to take a break for lunch. Five minutes later the first group had finished calibrating and emptied the aft tanks again. Both groups returned to work around 8:30 p.m. and noticed that the boat was heavily bowed. The hatches in the bow were pushed under water, resulting in massive water ingress. For the next 15 minutes, workers attempted to close the hatches, which was prevented by cables routed inside through the hatches. At around 8:55 p.m. the guitar sank in about 35 feet (10 m) deep water.
On May 18, the boat could be lifted, the damage was estimated at 15.2 to 21.85 million dollars, the commissioning was delayed until September 9, 1972.
Calls
From the mid-1970s, was Guitarro test boat for the submerged using the then-new cruise missiles of the type BGM-109 Tomahawk . In 1982 the boat sank the decommissioned destroyer USS Agerholm (DD-826) with a tomahawk .
Shortly before the end of their careers took Giutarro in the exercise Exercise '90 Fallex part and was decommissioned 1,992th By 1994 the submarine was scrapped in the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard .
Web links
- Report of the Navy about the accident (English)