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Spinax (SS-489) (SSR-489) (AGSS-489)

Radio Call Sign: November - Yankee - Echo - Sierra

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in 1969; Decommissioned and simultaneously struck from the Naval Register, 11 October 1969; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 13 June 1972, to NASSCO, Terminal Is., CA for $ 107,910.00.
Partial data submitted by Ron Reeves, HTC, USNR (ret.)

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 1,570 t., Submerged: 2,414 t.; Length 311' 8"; Beam 27' 4"; Draft 15' 3"; Speed, Surfaced 20.25 kts, Submerged 8.75 kts; Cruising Range, 11,000 miles surfaced at 10kts; Submerged Endurance, 48 hours at 2kts; Operating Depth, 400 ft; Complement 7 Officers 69 Enlisted; Armament, ten 21" torpedo tubes, six forward, four aft, 24 torpedoes, one 5"/25 deck gun, two 20mm guns, two .30 cal. machine guns; Patrol Endurance 75 days; Propulsion, diesel-electric reduction gear with four Fairbanks Morse main generator engines, 5,400HP, Fuel Capacity, 113,510 gal., two Elliot Motor Co. main motors with 2,740HP, two 126-cell main storage batteries, two propellers.

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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	25k	Starboard side view of the Spinax (SSR-489), underway, circa 1948.		US Navy photo courtesy of Robert Hurst.
	49k	Spinax (SSR-489), underway, circa Jan. 48 - Aug 59, location unknown.		Courtesy of David L. Gibbens, EMC(SS), USN, Ret.
	278k	Cusk (SS-348) crew photo 1953. The boat on the right of the picture (port side of Cusk) is the Spinax (SSR-489). The boat on the left of the photo (starboard side of Cusk) is harder to identify, but it might be the Carbonero (AGSS-337). The structure on the after deck looks a lot like a Loon missile launch ramp, and Carbonero was the only other boat equipped to fire this missile. However, other photos of Carbonero show the ramp mounted much closer to the conning tower fairwater; her installation was more temporary in nature than Cusk's and she lacked a water-tight hangar. The Destroyer Hall (DD-583) can be seen in the right rear of the photo.		Photo courtesy of Vern Maxson, LCDR,USNR-R-RETIRED (SS). Text courtesy of Dave Johnston (USNR).
	90k	Spinax (SSR-489), underway, circa Jan. 48 - Aug 59, location unknown.		Courtesy of John Hummel.
	63k	Nereus (AS-17) with nine submarines; Tunny (SSG-282), Cusk (SS-348), Carbonero(SS-337), Tilefish (SS-307), Spinax (SSR-489), Rock (SSR-274), Remora (SS-487), Catfish (SS-339), Volador (SS-490) and the Submarine Rescue Vessel Florikan (ASR-9) moored alongside at San Diego for Subron Five's Change of Command, date unknown.		US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, November 1955, courtesy of Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	42k	Spinax (SSR-489), underway on 27 September 1956, following overhaul at Mare Island from June through October 1956.		Photo from Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995 and submitted courtesy of Robert Hurst. Partial text courtesy of DANFS. Photo added 07/07/07.
	53k	Spinax (SSR-489), underway, circa 1965, location unknown.		US Navy photo courtesy of Robert Hurst.
	32k	Spinax (SS-489), Redfish (SS-395), and Volador (SS-490) nested alongside the Nereus (AS-17), at San Diego, date unknown.		Courtesy of Patrick Householder.
	430k	Seven inactive submarines at Mare Island on 30 April 1971. Left to right: Cusk (SS-348), Rock (SS-274), Bashaw (SS-241), Spinax (SSR-489), Pomodon (SS-486), Medregal (SS-480), and Diodon (SS-349). Photo by Ted Stone and negative given to the shipyard in 1995.		USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker.

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View the Spinax (SS-489)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
USS Spinax (SSR/SS-489)
Tench Class Submarines
Full Fathom Five, U.S. Submarine War Against Japan

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