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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

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Tullibee (SSN-597)

Radio Call Sign: November - Alpha - Foxtrot - Quebec

Tullibee Class Attack Submarine: Laid down, 26 May 1958, at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT.; Launched, 27 April 1960; Commissioned, USS Tullibee (SSN-597), 9 November 1960; Decommissioned and simultaneously struck from the Naval Register, 18 June 1988; Final Disposition, disposed of through NPSSRP (Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 1 April 1996.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 2,317 t., Submerged: 2,640 t.; Length 273'; Beam 23' 7"; Speed, Surfaced 12.9 kts, Submerged 16 kts; Depth Limit 700'; Complement 58; Armament, four 21" torpedo tubes amidships aft of the bow; Propulsion System, nuclear reactor one propeller.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
179k	Submarine Silhouettes of 1960: Nautilus (SSN-571), Seawolf (SSN-575), Skate (SSN-578), Skipjack (SS-585), Triton (SSRN-586), Halibut (SSGN-587), Thresher (SSN-593), Tullibee (SSN-597), George Washington (SSBN-598), & Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) classes.	U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Ron Titus, courtesy of Ingersoll-Rand. Corp.
187k	Nuclear Submarine Profiles 1960: Nautilus (SSN-571), Seawolf (SSN-575), Triton (SSRN-586), Skate (SSN-578) & Skipjack (SS-585) classes, Halibut (SSGN-587) & Tullibee (SSN-597) classes, George Washington (SSBN-598) & Thresher (SSN-593) classes.	US Navy photo courtesy of Ron Titus courtesy of Ingersoll-Rand. Corp. Photo i.d. courtesy of Dave Johnston.
77k	The crew of the Tullibee (SSN-597) line her deck during Pre-Launch Ceremony on the Thames River at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 27 April 1960.	Photo courtesy of ship.bsu.by. via geocities.com/weatherman5 & submitted by Bill Gonyo.
60k	Tullibee (SSN-597) slides down the ways into the Thames River at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 27 April 1960.	AP wirephoto courtesy of the Springfield Mass. Morning Union newspaper, submitted by Stan Svec.
103k	A two shark fined Tullibee (SSN-597) cuts through the waters during her seatrials off the New England coast, April - November 1960.	US Navy photo courtesy of The American Submarine, by Norman Polmar & submitted by Robert Hurst. Photo added 04/23/08.
55k	A crewman salutes the national ensign during the Tullibee's (SSN-597) Commissioning Ceremony, 9 November 1960.	Photo courtesy of ship.bsu.by. via geocities.com/weatherman5 & submitted by Bill Gonyo.
32k	Commemorative post mark on the occasion of Tullibee's (SSN-597) first day in commission, November 10, 1960.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
149k	Front cover of Tullibee's (SSN-597) Commissioning Booklet, November 10, 1960.	Courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
84k	The Tullibee (SSN-597) passes a three masted sailing vessel with a Guppy class boat behind her when she resumed developmental work in 1965 and operated in this capacity into the fall of that year.	USN photo courtesy of John Davis. Partial text courtesy of DANFS.
35k	Commemorative post mark of the Tullibee (SSN-597) decommissioning, June 25, 1988.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
86k	Cover of Tullibee (SSN-597) Decommissioning Ceremony pamphlet.	USN photo / Ken Hart.
117k	Tullibee (SSN-597), underway, date and place unknown.	US Navy photo.
359k	Starboard side view of the Tullibee (SSN-597), underway, date and place unknown.	US Navy photo chinfo.navy.mil.
268k	Tullibee (SSN-597) 1/200 scale solid cast resin model.	Model and photo by Ken Hart.
83k	Trench 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.
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 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.