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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

Patch at left contributed by Mike Smolinski, at right by Chuck McGowen

Sailfish (SSR-572) (SS-572)

Radio Call Sign: November - India - Kilo - Oscar
Voice Call Sign: CUPGRASS

Sailfish Class Submarine: Laid down, 8 December 1953, at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME.; Launched, 7 September 1955; Commissioned, USS Sailfish (SSR-572), 14 April 1956; Reclassified Attack Submarine (SS-572), 3 February 1961; FRAM II conversion, January 1965 to February 1966, at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA.; Decommissioned, 29 September 1978, Submarine Support Facility, San Diego, CA.; Struck from the Naval Register, 30 September 1978; Final Disposition; sunk by a Mk 48 ADCAP torpedo fired from the Topeka (SSN-754).
The location of Sailfish is 47-05.783N 127-23.133W. 121.2 nautical miles (139.5 statute miles) from land at a depth of 1451 fathoms (8700 feet). To see how the Sailfish arrived at this depth, click SINKEX: May 2007.
Partial text info courtesy of Eric H. Ericson, III.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 2,334 t., Submerged: 3,168 t.; Length 350' 5" ; Beam 29' 1"; Draft 16' 4"; Speed, Surfaced 20.5 kts, Submerged 15 kts; Complement 10 Officers, 85 Enlisted; Armament, six 21" torpedo tubes, Propulsion, diesel-electric, twin propellers.

Size	Image Description	Source
12k	Istiophorus platypterus, a Sailfish.	Illustrated by Diane Rome Peebles. Photo courtesy of myfwc.com.
53k	Sailfish (SSR-572), launching, 7 September 1955, at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member
29k	Sailfish (SSR-572), prior to commissioning, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member
86k	Sailfish (SSR-572), underway during builders sea trials, early 1956.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member
90k	Sailfish (SSR-572), off Kittery ME, photo dated 11 May 1956.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member
83k	Sailfish (SSR-572), at sea, 1956.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member
92k	Sailfish (SSR-572), underway circa 1956-1958	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member
82k	Sailfish (SSR-572), close-up view of radars, date and place unknown.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member.
81k	Sailfish (SSR-572), date and place unknown.	Photo from "Our Navy" Magazine 15 February, 1958, courtesy of Stanley Svec.
80k	Sailfish (SSR-572), on the Thames River in New London, CT., heading out of the Sub Base toward the open sea, circa 1959 or 1961.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member.
84k	Sailfish (SS-572), circa 1961, place unknown.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member.
35k	Sailfish (SS-572), in port, January or February of 1963 taken just after leaving Genoa Italy heading for Rota Spain, enroute to New London, Conn.	USN photo courtesy of Ric Hedman TN(SS), photo i.d. courtesy of David Yoh (USN retired).
88k	Sailfish (SS-572), underway. Photo from Subron 10 Cruise Book, 1964-1965.	US Navy photo courtesy of Fred Willshaw
84k	Sailfish (SS-572), getting underway to lay a wreath over the last known location of Thesher (SSN-593). Photo from Subron 10 Cruise Book, 1964-1965.	US Navy photo courtesy of Fred Willshaw
101k	Sailfish (SS-572) arriving at Pearl Harbor, Aug 1969. This was the day *Sailfish* arrived in Pearl Harbor from SubRon 8 in New London, CT. The Lei is made from GDU bags.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member.
101k	Sailfish (SS-572) at Pearl Harbor, Aug 1969. This was the first official Navy picture taken in Pearl Harbor after she was attached to SubRon 7.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member.
68k	Sailfish (SS-572), in dry dock Yokosuka Naval Shipyard, Japan, 1970.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member.
36k	Sailfish (SS-572), in dry dock Yokosuka Naval Shipyard, Japan, 1970.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member.
116k	Sailfish (SS-572), in dry dock Yokosuka Naval Shipyard, Japan, 1970.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member.
200k	Sailfish (SS-572), in dry dock Yokosuka Naval Shipyard, Japan, 1970.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member.
160k	Sailfish (SS-572), in dry dock Yokosuka Naval Shipyard, Japan, 1970.	US Navy photo courtesy of Glenn Jackson, former crew member.
72k	Sailfish (SS-572), at Kaoshuing, 1970.	Photo by William P. Jones, MD, Medical Officer, USS Niagara Falls (AFS-3)
52k	Sailfish (SS-572), tied to USCGC Taney (37) at the anchorage in Kaoshuing.	Photo by William P. Jones, M.D. 1969.
152k	Sailfish (SS-572), underway 1972.	Photo courtesy of Chuck McGowen.
100k	Sailfish (SS-572), quietly sitting under the port flight deck overhang of the Midway (CV-41) at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in July 1997.	Photo taken from Warship Boneyards, by Kit and Carolyn Bonner & submitted by Robert Hurst. Photo added 04/17/08.
127k	The Sailfish (SS-572), berthed at Bremerton, WA., 18 October 2002, stripped of electronics and weapons, awaiting disposal. She is moored starboard side to, under the angled flight deck of Midway (CV-41).	Photo courtesy of Ric Hedman TN(SS).
97k	Sailfish (SS-572) sinkex location.	Photo courtesy of mysite.verizon.net/gjack572/ via Eric H. Ericson III, TM3(SS) Bang (SS-385).