USS Tautog (SSN-639)
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| Ordered: | November 30, 1961 |
| Keel laying: | January 27, 1964 |
| Launch: | April 15, 1967 |
| Commissioning: | 17th August 1968 |
| Decommissioning: | March 31, 1997 |
| 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 Tautog (SSN-639) was a nuclear submarine in the service of the United States Navy and belonged to the Sturgeon class .
history
construction
The Tautog was commissioned in 1961 and laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in early 1964 . The boat was launched in April 1967 and put into service in August of the following year. The godmother of the boat was Albert Gore's wife , Sr.
The boat made its first test drives from Pearl Harbor . At the beginning of 1969, the first repairs were carried out in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard , including replacing the defective diesel generator. The boat was then ready for use in mid-1970.
accident
On June 20, 1970, the Tautog operated in front of the Soviet submarine base in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky . The boat wanted to chase the outgoing K-108 , an Echo II class submarine . When the K-108 performed " Angles and Dangles ", the two boats collided violently. The Tautog sought right after the distance, you could hear noises which suggested the K-108 was sunk. When the Tautog arrived in Pearl Harbor, bits and pieces of one of the screws from the Soviet submarine were found in the remains of the Tautog's tower . Only 30 years later did it become known in the West that the K-108 had survived the incident and reached its home port without losses.
Decommissioning
In 1997 the Tautog was taken out of service. The demolition of the boat began in 2003 and was completed in mid-2004. Only the tower was preserved and is on display in Seawolf Park in Galveston , Texas .
literature
- Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew: Hunt under water. The real story of submarine espionage. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-570-00425-2 .
Web links
- History of USS Tautog (SSN-639) in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)