USS Permit (SSN-594)
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| Ordered: | January 27, 1958 |
| Keel laying: | May 1, 1959 |
| Launch: | July 1, 1961 |
| Commissioning: | May 29, 1962 |
| Decommissioning: | July 23, 1991 |
| Status: | Canceled |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement: | 4,400 tons submerged |
| Length: | 84.7 meters |
| Width: | 9.8 meters |
| Draft: | 8.8 meters |
| Drive: | A S5W pressurized water reactor |
| Crew: | 12 officers, 115 sailors |
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The USS Permit (SSN-594) was a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy and was part of the Permit-class submarine to. After the sinking of the type ship USS Thresher (SSN-593) the class was known as the permit class .
history
The order to build the permit went to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in 1958 , where the keel of the boat was laid in 1959. After a construction period of 14 months, the ship was launched and was christened after a jack mackerel that occurs along the west coast of North and South America. The commissioning of the boat was in May 1962. Even before the commissioning, the permit was rammed off the Farallon Islands by the freighter Hawaiian Citizen when the submarine was submerged. There was only slight damage to the sail .
The permit spent the first few years with test drives and material and weapon tests. On March 28, 1963, the Permit was the first submarine to fire a Subroc , a rocket-propelled depth charge. The first deployment in the Vietnam War followed in October 1965 . A short, first overhaul took place from 1967.
In 1969 the permit carried out a demonstration run for admirals and USAF generals. Also on board: Senator Margaret Chase Smith . The second and last voyage in the Vietnam War followed in 1970, followed by the first refilling of the reactor in the shipyard in 1971.
In 1974 it was the permit that was the first submarine to successfully shoot down the anti-ship missile AGM-84 Harpoon . In 1982 there was a second collision involving the Permit . The submerged permit rammed the surfaced USS La Jolla (SSN-701) , both submarines were slightly damaged. In 1983, again in Mare Island, the reactor was filled for the second time.
In 1990 the permit was shown in the film Hunt for Red October . In the scene when Jack Ryan visits Skip Tylor at a shipyard, the permit can be seen. In 1991 the permit was finally decommissioned and canceled from September 1991 to May 1993 in the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program in the Puget Sound Navy Yard .
