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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

Permit (SSN-594)

Radio Call Sign: November - Alpha - Victor - Echo

Thresher Class Attack Submarine: Laid down, 16 July 1959, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA.; Launched, 1 July 1961; Commissioned, USS Permit (SSN-594), 29 May 1962; Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 12 June 1991; Laid up at Bremerton Naval Shipyard; Final Disposition, entered the NPSSRP (Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 30 September 1991 and completed 20 May 1993.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 3,540 t., Submerged: 4,200 t.; Length 278' 5"; Beam 31' 8"; ; Speed, Surfaced 15 kts, Submerged 28+ kts; Operating Depth 400'; Complement, 143; Sensors, Raytheon BQS-6A or -6B active/passive systems BQQ-1 and the Edo BQR-7 passive, conformal array, TB-26 Towed Sonar Array; Armament, four 21" torpedo tubes, forward, MK 48 torpedoes, UUM-44A SUBROC, UGM-84A/C Harpoon, MK 57 deep water mines, Mk 60 CAPTOR mines; Propulsion System, one S5W nuclear reactor, two Westinghouse steam turbines, one propeller 15,000 shp.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
204k	Hull section 2 of the Permit (SSN-594) is shown under construction at Mare Island on 19 Jan 1959. The hull section was under construction at berth 15 at the North end of the shipyard.	U.S. Navy photo # NY9 42819-1-59, contributed by Darryl Baker.
271k	FIrst section on the Permit (SSN-594) is placed on the building ways at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 25 Jun 1959. This in bulkhead 52.	U.S. Navy photo # NY9 45039-6-59, contributed by Darryl Baker.
97k	RADM L. V. Honsinger, USN, Shipyard Commander, authenticates the keel of the Permit (SSN-594) at Mare Island on 16 Jul 59.	U.S. Navy photo # NY9-45325-7-59, contributed by Darryl Baker.
258k	The volunteer civilian band is shown in the foreground during the keel laying ceremony on the Permit (SSN-594) on 16 July 1959 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.	U.S. Navy photo # NY9-45322-7-59, contributed by Darryl Baker.
77k	RADM Leroy V. Hunsinger, USN, Shipyard Commander, speaks at the keel laying of the Permit (SSN-594) on 16 Jul 59 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. The *Permit* was Mare Island's 5th nuclear submarine.	U.S. Navy photo # NY9-45323-7-59, contributed by Darryl Baker.
96k	VIPs at the keel laying of Permit (SSN-594) at Mare Island on 16 Jul 59. From left to right: CDR E. E. Kintner, USN, Nuclear Power Supt, and honorary keel layers Henry A. McKenna, Master Machinist; Florie A. Braghetta, Head of Laboratory Branch; and Walter R. Suess, Head of Reproduction Center.	U.S. Navy photo # NY9-45328-7-59, contributed by Darryl Baker.
240k	Section number for Permit (SSN-594) is shown being prefabricated in Mare Island's shipfitter shop on 25 Jan 60.	U.S. Navy photo # NY9 46866-1-60, contributed by Darryl Baker.
182k	Permit (SSN-594), Hull section 3 (Aft section of submarine) is show being placed on the building ways at Mare Island on 18 Feb 60.	U.S. Navy photo # NY9 47152-2-60, contributed by Darryl Baker.
240k	Progress view of the Permit (SSN-594) on the building ways at Mare Island on 6 Apr 60.	U.S. Navy photo # NY9 47620-4-60, contributed by Darryl Baker.
125k	Permit (SSN-594), commissioning postcard, 1 July 1961.	Courtesy of Dave Stoops EM2(SS) PERMIT and webmaster of the PERMIT homepage.
44k	Permit (SSN-594), launching invitation ceremony, 1 July 1961.	Courtesy of Dave Stoops EM2(SS) PERMIT and webmaster of the PERMIT homepage.
466k	Permit (SSN-594), launching, bow view, waterborne at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1 July 1961.	Navy Photo # NY9-51981-7-61 courtesy of Dave Stoops EM2(SS) PERMIT and webmaster of the PERMIT homepage.
90k	Permit (SSN-594), first day commerative post card, 29 May, 1962.	Courtesy of Dave Stoops EM2(SS) PERMIT and webmaster of the PERMIT homepage.
283k	Permit (SSN-594), sea trials at flank speed at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1 June 1962.	Navy Photo # NY9-55179-6-62, courtesy of Dave Stoops EM2(SS) PERMIT and webmaster of the PERMIT homepage.
62k	Permit (SSN-594) underway, May 1962.	U.S. Navy photo.
132k	US Navy photo, declassified. Taken on 28 March 1963, subroc as seen from Permit's (SSN-594) scope.	Long Beach Photographic Laboratory Negative # 24326, courtesy of Dave Stoops EM2(SS) PERMIT and webmaster of the PERMIT homepage.
52k	Commemorative postal cover issued on the occassion of the Persidential visit on the Permit (SSN-594) 6 June 1963.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
132k	The Snook (SSN-592) and Permit (SSN-594) are shown entering dry dock 3 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 18 Feb 66. *Snook* is in front of the *Permit*. They were in dry dock from 18 Feb to 27 Feb 66.	U.S. Navy photo # MSA 71823-2-66, contributed by Darryl Baker.
69k	Permit (SSN-594), under way. Circa 1967, location unknown.	Courtesy of Dave Stoops EM2(SS) PERMIT and webmaster of the PERMIT homepage.
333k	Permit (SSN-594), summer or fall of 1970 on a WesPac cruise as we were approaching Okinawa. The Chief in the picture near the torpedo shipping hatch is TMC(SS) Robert McClain.	Courtesy of PH3 Mac McCloskey.
145k	Permit (SSN-594), tied up next to the Florikan (ASR-9) in Hong Kong, summer or fall of 1970.	Courtesy of Dave Stoops EM2(SS) PERMIT and webmaster of the PERMIT homepage.
128k	Photo of the Permit's (SSN-594), battery well looking aft, 1970.	Courtesy of Dave Stoops EM2(SS) PERMIT and webmaster of the PERMIT homepage.
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.
130k	The Permit (SSN-594) is shown at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on the date of her decommission on 22 Jul 91. Notice that the sonar dome has been removed for towing to Puget Sound. The house behind the sail is an emergency diesel installed for the tow.	U.S. Navy photo # 247635, contributed by Darryl Baker.
80k	Port side view of the Permit (SSN-594) underway somewhere off the Pacific coast in this undated photo.	Official US Navy photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. Photo added 04/21/06.
103k	Capt M. T. Coyle, USN, Shipyard Commander, Mare Island Naval Shipyard and CDR D. A. Schneegas, Commanding Officer, Permit (SSN-594) are shown signing the transfer order for *Permit* to the shipyard after her decommissioning on 22 Jul 91.	U.S. Navy photo # 247626, contributed by Darryl Baker.
111k	CDR D. A. Schneegas, USN, Commanding Officer, Permit (SSN-594) is seen carrying the ship's colors off the ship after her decommissioning at Mare Island on 22 Jul 91.	U.S. Navy photo # 3 247631,contributed by Darryl Baker.
73k	Permit (SSN-594), RADM R. H. Blount, USN (Ret) (first skipper of *Permit), is shown with CDR D. A. Schneegas, USN (last skipper of Permit), and Captain M. T. Coyle, USN, Shipyard Commander, Mare Island on 22 Jul 91 after the decommissioning ceremony for Permit*.	U.S. Navy photo # 249633, contributed by Darryl Baker.
51k	Bows on view of a radio controlled 1:72 scale model of the Permit (SSN-594).	Courtesy of Bob Cowan.