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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

Patch on left contributed by Jack Treutle, on right by Mike Smolinski.

Dolphin (AGSS-555)

Dolphin Class Submarine: Laid down, 19 December 1964, at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME.; Launched, 6 August 1968; Commissioned USS Dolphin (AGSS-555), 17 August 1968; Dolphin is in commission and homeported at San Diego, CA.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 800 t., Submerged: 950 t.; Length 152'; Beam 19' 3"; Speed, Surfaced 10 kts, Submerged 7.5 kts; Test Depth, 1,500 ft; Complement 3 Officers, 18 Enlisted, 4 Scientists; Armament, one torpedo tube; Propulsion, diesel-electric reduction gear with two Detroit Diesel (12 V71) main generator engines, two electric main motors, two 126-cell main storage batteries.

Size	Image Description	Source
120k	Stern view of the Dolphin (AGSS-555) on the launching skids moments before she starts her slide into the waters at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME., on 6 August 1968.	US Navy photo courtesy of St. Marys Submarine Museum, submitted by Thomas Denton, Submarine Art
95k	LCdr J.R. McDonnell waves from the Dolphin's (AGSS-555) conning tower as she begins to enter bow first at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME., on 6 August 1968.	US Navy photo courtesy of St. Marys Submarine Museum, submitted by Thomas Denton, Submarine Art
91k	The Dolphin (AGSS-555) is now at the end of the launching ways entering the waters with her launching skid almost completley submerged.	US Navy photo courtesy of St. Marys Submarine Museum, submitted by Thomas Denton, Submarine Art
113k	The Dolphin (AGSS-555) is now waterborne on the Piscataqua River, Kittery, ME.	US Navy photo courtesy of St. Marys Submarine Museum, submitted by Thomas Denton, Submarine Art
29k	Postmarked Mare Island Naval Shipyard dated 21 October 1971 of the Dolphin (AGSS-555) with a special Machine cancellation honoring MIA-POW's from RVN era.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
335k	A starboard bow view of the research submarine Dolphin (AGSS-555) underway on 30 Jul 1974.	Official U.S. Navy Photograph photo # DN-SC-85-01908 by PH1 Smith, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
50k	Dolphin (AGSS-555) passing under the Golden Gate Bridge, on her way out for sea trials after completion of work accomplished at Mare Island in 1983 or 1984.	US Navy photo courtesy of Jim Richardson.
499k	The Dolphin (AGSS-555) is docked in an old AFDL that the shipyard rented for her overhaul in October 1985. To the right of *Dolphin* is the yard's dry dock #4 where the new extended hull section for Parche (SSN-683) is under construction. *Dolphin* is in the tan colored floating dry dock berth to center left. *Parche's* hull section is in dry dock #4 under all those metal roofs under the three large dock cranes (two green and one yellow). You can't see the hull section - it was a classified project.	Navy Photo # 211104-10-85 NS, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
48k	An Oil on masonite painting by the artist John Charles Roach, entitled "Ballast Point, San Diego", depicts sub base with subs and tenders at the pier in San Diego during mid 1986. The tenders were possibly the: McKee (AS-42) for Subron 7: Dixon (AS-37) for Subron 3: Among the subs were the: Dolphin (AGSS-555): Gudgeon (SS-567): Albacore (AGSS-569): Barbel (SS-580): Blueback (SS-581): Permit (SSN-594): Plunger (SSN-595): Pollack (SSN-603) Haddo (SSN-604): Guardfish (SSN-612): Haddock (SSN-621): Sturgeon (SSN-637): Gurnard (SSN-662) : Hawkbill (SSN-666): Pintado (SSN-672): Drum (SSN-677): William H. Bates (SSN-680): La Jolla (SSN-701): Portsmouth (SSN-707) & Salt Lake City (SSN-716).	Ballast Point, San Diego John Charles Roach 1986.5 Oil on masonite, 1986, courtesy of the USNHC, # 88-163-CR. Text contributed by OMC J. Reid Pallady USNR-RET & QM2(SS) David Johnston, USNR.
96k	The Dolphin (AGSS-555) underway early in her career before her 1993 overhaul.	US Navy photo courtesy of St. Marys Submarine Museum, submitted by Thomas Denton, Submarine Art
217k	The Dolphin (AGSS-555) in drydock, probably undergoing her overhaul in 1993.	US Navy photo courtesy of St. Marys Submarine Museum, submitted by Thomas Denton, Submarine Art
61k	Crew of the Dolphin (AGSS-555) at NOSC, now Spawar System Center San Diego sometime in 1994 on her return to San Diego. She had just finished up an overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, MINSY. She is getting ready to moor starboard side to pier 160A. In the back ground you can see a large ship, probably an AO, AOE or AFS, tied up to the fuel pier just south of NOSC. On the left side you see a barge with a building on it. This is part of the bait barge layout near Subase Point Loma.	US Navy photo courtesy of the Federation of American Scientists. Photo i.d. & text courtesy of Joel Staggs, ETCM(SS) (Ret).
73k	Publicity photo to good to pass up from one species to another: Dolphin (AGSS-555) underway, with an accompanying member of the species, circa 1990's?	Official US Navy photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr.
275k	The Oceanographic Research Motor Vessel *WM. A. McGAW* arrives with crew members from the US Navy diesel research Submarine Dolphin (AGSS-555) on 22 May 2002, at the Submarine Base Point Loma. The crew members were rescued from their submarine, after reporting fire and flooding.	Official U.S. Navy Photograph photo # DN-SD-04-09744 by PH2 Erin A. Zocco, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. & submitted by Bill Gonyo.
92k	A line stretches from the bow of the diesel-powered auxiliary research submarine Dolphin (AGSS-555) as it is towed by a tug to port following a fire and flooding approximately 100 miles off the coast of San Diego late Tuesday evening. All 43 crew members were evacuated safely with only a few minor injuries.	US Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Michael D. Kennedy, photo # N-5067K-004, CHINFO Chief of Naval Information.
353k	The auxiliary research submarine Dolphin (AGSS-555) reported fire and flooding at 11:30 PM (PDT) Tuesday, May 21st. The entire crew was forced to evacuate the ship. The *Dolphin* was operating approximately 100 miles off the coast of San Diego.	US Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Michael D. Kennedy, photo # N-0000X-001, CHINFO Chief of Naval Information.
87k	On November 2003, the Dolphin (AGSS-555) celebrated its 35th year in service with a small ceremony held on Naval Base Point Loma, San Diego, CA.	US Navy photo courtesy of JOC (SCW) Robert Feinberg, COMSUBPAC REP WEST COAST.
520k	A Sailor assigned to the deep submergence vehicle Dolphin (AGSS-555), hoists the Commanding Officers pennant during a change of command ceremony at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego 18 Nov. 2005. *Dolphin* was commissioned on 17 August 1968 and serves as the Navy's deep diving submarine and scientific test platform. It is assigned to Submarine Development Squadron Five in San Diego.	US Navy photo # N-3714J-068 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Erika N. Jones, courtesy of navy.news.mil.
248k	Cmdr. Andrew C. Wilder relieves Cmdr. Edward L. Hasell as Commanding Officer, Dolphin (AGSS-555) during a change of command ceremony at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command.	US Navy photo # N-3714J-067 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Erika N. Jones, courtesy of navy.news.mil.
236k	Chief petty officers assigned to the deep submergence vehicle Dolphin (AGSS-555), celebrate their change of command ceremony at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command.	US Navy photo # N-3714J-059 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Erika N. Jones, courtesy of navy.news.mil.
277k	Crew members aboard the auxiliary research submarine Dolphin (AGSS-555), pull into San Diego harbor after conducting an underway period off the coast of Southern California, 15 Dec. 2005.	US Navy photo # N-3532C-001 by Journalist Seaman Joseph Caballero, courtesy of navy.news.mil.
375k	Executive Officer, Dolphin (AGSS-555), Lt. Cmdr. John Vlattas, relays the status of a simulated class alpha fire during a fire drill, 15 Dec. 2005.	US Navy photo # N-3532C-001 by Journalist Seaman Joseph Caballero, courtesy of navy.news.mil.
247k	Dolphin's (AGSS-555) Commanding Officer, Cmdr. Andrew Wilde, Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Mark Mundwiller, and Electrician's Mate 1st Class David Carlisle, man the bridge as the Navy's only diesel-electric submarine pulls into her homeport at Naval Space and Warfare Systems Command in San Diego on 14 July 2006. The exercises were the first for *Dolphin* following shipyard availability.	US Navy photo # N-4281P-146 by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Woody Paschall, courtesy of navy.news.mil.
146k	Dolphin (AGSS-555) docked next to the *Berkeley* ferry boat at the San Diego Maritime Museum in June 2009.	Photo courtesy of M. J. Anderson. Photo added 06/26/09.