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Permit (SSN-594)
Active Service - Decommissioning

Radio Call Sign: November - Alpha - Victor - Echo
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Keel Laying - Commissioning

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.
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Permit241k Forward plan view of Permit (SSN-594) at her outfitting berth at Mare Island on 15 Jan 1962. The Plunger (SSN-595) is aft of Permit. U.S. Navy photo # 53561-1-62, contributed by Darryl Baker.
Permit222k Aft plan view of Permit (SSN-594) at her outfitting berth at Mare Island on 15 Jan 1962. U.S. Navy photo # 53562-1-62, contributed by Darryl Baker.
Permit90k Permit (SSN-594), first day commerative post card, 29 May, 1962. Courtesy of Dave Stoops EM2(SS) Permit (SSN-594) and webmaster of the Permit (SSN-594) homepage.
Permit283k 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 (SSN-594) and webmaster of the Permit (SSN-594) homepage.
Permit62k Permit (SSN-594) underway, May 1962. U.S. Navy photo.
Permit132k 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 (SSN-594) and webmaster of the Permit (SSN-594) homepage.
Permit52kCommemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of the Presidential visit on the Permit (SSN-594) 6 June 1963.Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
Permit53k The Permit (SSN-594) being loaded with a UUM-44A Subroc submarine launched anti-submarine missile, date and location unknown. USN photo courtesy of Robert Hirst.
Permit36kCommemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of the first firing of the SUBROC by the Permit (SSN-594), 4 Dec. 1963.Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
Plunger 39k The Plunger (SSN-595), tied-up alongside the Scamp (SSN-588) with the Permit (SSN-594) behind, c1964, probably at Pearl Harbor. The submarine tender Sperry (AS-12) is tied-up on the other side of the jetty. USN photo courtesy of Robert Hirst.
Permit132k 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.
Permit69kPermit (SSN-594), under way. Circa 1967, location unknown.Courtesy of Dave Stoops EM2(SS) Permit (SSN-594) and webmaster of the Permit (SSN-594) homepage.
Permit333kPermit (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.
Permit145kPermit (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 (SSN-594) and webmaster of the Permit (SSN-594) homepage.
Permit128kPhoto of the Permit's (SSN-594), battery well looking aft, 1970. Courtesy of Dave Stoops EM2(SS) Permit (SSN-594) and webmaster of the Permit (SSN-594) homepage.
Ballast Point, San Diego48kAn 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.
Permit130k 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.
Permit80k 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.
Permit103k 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.
Permit111k 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.
Permit73k RADM R. H. Blount, USN (Ret) (first skipper of Permit (SSN-594)), 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.
PSNSY291k"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.
Reactor Compartments83kTrench 94, Hanford Site, Washington, 1994. Hull sections containing defueled reactor compartments of decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are put in disposal trenches. Once full, the trench will be filled with dirt and buried. The compartments are expected to retain their integrity for more than 600 years. USN photo & partial text courtesy of home.flash.net/~tomj/tunny/chop/rx. & submitted by Jack Treutle.
Spent Fuel569kSealed 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 as of March 2003:
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.
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