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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

Patch on left courtesy of Jack Treutle. Other patches contributed by Mike Smolinski. Patch on right courtesy of Darryl Baker.

Seawolf (SSN-575)
Decommissioning

Radio Call Sign: November - Bravo - Whiskey - Yankee

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Seawolf Class Submarine: Laid down, 7 September 1953, at General Dynamics Corp. Electric Boat Co. Div., Groton, CT.; Launched, 21 July 1955; Commissioned, USS Seawolf (SSN-575), 30 March 1957; Decommissioned, 12 December 1958; Recommissioned, 30 September 1960, at Groton, CT.; Decommissioned, 30 March 1987; Struck from the Naval Register, 10 July 1987; Final Disposition, disposed through NPSSRP (Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 30 September 1997.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 3,260 t., Submerged: 4,110 t.; Length 338'; Beam 28'; Draft 23'; Speed, Surfaced 23 kts, Submerged 19 kts; Complement 101; Armament, six 21" torpedo tubes, Propulsion, sodium cooled nuclear reactor converted in a pressurized water cooled reactor, 1958-60, Twin-Screw Twin Steam Turbine. (C/o John Parrott MM1/SS).

Size	Image Description	Source
99k	The decommisioing ceremonies are about to start for the Seawolf (SSN-575) at Mare Island on 30 March 1987.	USN photo # 219975-3-87, courtesy of Darryl Baker. Photo added 02/04/07.
84k	Bow view of the Seawolf (SSN-575) during her decommissioning cermonies at Mare Island on 30 March 1987.	USN photo # 219985-3-87, courtesy of Darryl Baker. Photo added 02/04/07.
63k	The commissioning penant is presented to CDR R. W. Talipsky at the decommissioning ceremonies of the Seawolf (SSN-575) at Mare Island on 30 March 1987.	USN photo # 219990-3-87, courtesy of Darryl Baker. Photo added 02/04/07.
110k	Retired Capt. R. B. Laning [first commanding officer] of Seawolf (SSN-575) followed by CDR R. W. Talipsky [last commanding officer] of *Seawolf* depart at the conclusion of the boat's decommissioning.	USN photo # 219994-3-87, courtesy of Darryl Baker. Photo added 02/04/07.
82k	Group photo from left to right CDR R. W. Talipsky (last commanding officer of Seawolf (SSN-575)), Retired Capt. R. B. Laning (first commanding officer of *Seawolf*), Capt. M. C. Tiernan (COMSUBDEV GROUP ONE), and RADM R. W. West, Jr. (COMSUBPAC) at the conclusion of the boat's decommissioning.	USN photo # 219995-3-87, courtesy of Darryl Baker. Photo added 02/04/07.
125k	Bow view of Seawolf (SSN-575)) during her decommissioning ceremonies at Mare Island on 30 March 1987.	USN photo # 219999-3-87, courtesy of Darryl Baker. Photo added 02/04/07.
97k	The ensign flies aboard the Seawolf (SSN-575)) for the last time during her decommissioning ceremonies at Mare Island on 30 March 1987.	USN photo # 219999-3-87, courtesy of Darryl Baker. Photo added 02/04/07.
26k	Commemorative post card marking the Seawolf's (SSN-575), decommissioning, 30 March 1987.	Courtesy of Richard Leonhardt.
27k	Commemorative post card & photo inset marking the decommissioning of the Seawolf (SSN-575), at Mare Island, CA., 30 March 1987.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
275k	The Seawolf (SSN-575) is seen under going an inclining experiment at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in April of 1987. She is undergoing inactivation at the time. Note large navigational lights on the sail which were required for her towing.	USN photo # MSA 220036-4-87, courtesy of Darryl Baker.
202k	Flag still flying, the Seawolf (SSN-575) is at MINSY being prepared for decommissioningand subsequent towing up to PSNS, late April 1987.	USN photo courtesy of John Parrott, ex-MM1/ss, USS Seawolf SSN-575, 1983-Decomm Crew.
180k	Broadside view of the Seawolf (SSN-575) at MINSY being prepared for decommissioningand subsequent towing up to PSNS, late April 1987.	USN photo courtesy of John Parrott, ex-MM1/ss, USS Seawolf SSN-575, 1983-Decomm Crew.
683k	An aerial view of a section of the Ship Intermediate Maintenance Facility at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1993. One submarine tender and 16 decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are shown including the Seawolf (SSN-575); six *George Washington, and Ben Franklin* class SSBN's (with their missile sections cut out) plus several *Skate, Skipjack, Permit* and *Sturgeon* class SSN's. All are awaiting scrapping. Identifiable boats are, from left to right:Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610),Skipjack (SS-585), unidentifiable, Triton (SSRN-586), possibly the Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640), unidentifiable, Skate (SSN-578), Sargo (SSN-583), Swordfish (SSN-579), Seawolf (SSN-575) & unidentifiable. Behind them is the Sperry (AS-12). Across the pier is what appears to be the Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), George Washington (SSBN-598),unidentifiable, & maybe the Barb (SSN-596).	Official U.S. Navy Photograph # DN-ST-95-01863, by Calvin Larsen, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
291k	"Sign of the times." March 1994 photo of Nuclear submarines at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard waiting in line for scrapping. Top row left to right are Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Seawolf (SSN-575), Plunger (SSN-595), Shark (SSN-591), Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636), Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) alongside Sperry (AS-12), with Triton (SSRN-586) across the pier from the *Sperry* . Bottom row, from left to right Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Skipjack (SS-585), Snook (SSN-592), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), Lapon (SSN-661), Dace (SSN-607), Skate (SSN-578), Swordfish (SSN-579), Sargo (SSN-583) , Seadragon (SSN-584). Across the pier are Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), and not in view, Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), George Washington (SSBN-598),Barb (SSN-596) & Sea Devil (SSN-664). There are so many submarines at PSNSY that the yard is running out of pier space.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
25k	Commemorative post card marking the scrapping of the Seawolf (SSN-575), Snook (SSN-592), Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), Henry Clay (SSBN-625) and Baton Rouge (SSN-689), 31 August 1997 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
569k	Sealed reactor compartments are shipped by barge out of Puget Sound Naval Base down the coast and along the Columbia River to the port of Benton. There the radioactively-contaminated hull sections are transferred to special multiwheeled high-load trailers for transport to the Hanford Reservation in Washington State. Pictured below is the burial ground for spent fuel of the following 77 nuclear reactor submarines: Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), Snook (SSN-592), George Washington (SSBN-598), Scamp (SSN-588), Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601), Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600), Dace (SSN-607), John Adams (SSBN-620), Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602), Barb (SSN-596), Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Pollack (SSN-603), Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685), James Monroe (SSBN-622), Skipjack (SS-585), Nathan Hale (SSBN-623), Plunger (SSN-595), Shark (SSN-591), Lafayette (SSBN-616), Sam Houston (SSBN-609), Jack (SSN-605), Haddo (SSN-604), Tinosa (SSN-606), Guardfish (SSN-612), Permit (SSN-594), Queenfish (SSN-651), Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631), John Marshall (SSBN-611), George C. Marshall (SSBN-654), Flasher (SSN-613), Guitarro (SSN-665), Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617), George Washington Carver (SSBN-656), Tecumseh (SSBN-628), Halibut (SSGN-587), Will Rogers (SSBN-659), Henry L. Stimson (SSBN-655), Daniel Boone (SSBN-629), Greenling (SSN-614), John C. Calhoun (SSBN-630), Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633), Skate (SSN-578), Sargo (SSN-583), Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657), Sturgeon (SSN-637), Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640), Swordfish (SSN-579), Seadragon (SSN-584), Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634), Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641), Hammerhead (SSN-663), Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) , Tullibee (SSN-597), Lewis & Clark (SSBN-644), Pargo (SSN-650), Seahorse (SSN-669), Gurnard (SSN-662), Flying Fish (SSN-673), Gato (SSN-615), Puffer (SSN-652), Seawolf (SSN-575), Baton Rouge (SSN-689), Bergall (SSN-667), Whale (SSN-638), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), James Madison (SSBN-627), Finback (SSN-670), Spadefish (SSN-668), Sunfish (SSN-649), George Bancroft (SSBN-643), Grayling (SSN-646), Pintado (SSN-672), Tunny (SSN-682), Archerfish (SSN-678), & Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624).	USN photo & partial text courtesy of home.flash.net/~tomj/tunny/chop/rx. & submitted by Jack Treutle.